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The Morgah Biodiversity Park, the first of its kind in Pakistan, is a brainchild of United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and Pacific costing $1,55,000. Initially, the basic concept behind the establishment of the park, covering 28 acres of land, was conservation of flora and fauna in natural habitat of the Potohar region. [...]

Forty students from various schools and colleges selected by a rigorous screening procedure from a nationwide competition, were participating in the training camp. The top five winners would be sent to the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO). First held in Warsaw, Poland, in 1967, IPhO is one of the prestigious scientific competitions participated by talented students [...]

Pakistan has increased by 80 per cent the funds it gives the Ministry of Science and Technology each year to spend within the framework of the country’s Public Sector Development Programme. Another US$18.5 million will be used to fund 24 new projects. The plans include setting up laboratories to monitor water quality in 117 districts, [...]

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH), a premier institute of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, has developed a new technology to fabricate the fuel cell indigenously, taking lead in the development of fuel cell technology in Pakistan. In order to bring about reduction in unwanted greenhouse gases from vehicular emissions, experiments to run the [...]

Karakuram International University Professor Dr Aftab Khan has become one of the few Pakistanis who invented a formula in the field of physics and the mathematics in recent times. Professor Dr Aftab Khan, who is currently heading Mathematics Department at KIU Gilgit has published several research works, and two of his research papers were published [...]

PAKSAT International is responsible for selling the bandwidth on Pakistan’s first communication satellite PAKSAT-1 which is located at 38 degrees East Longitude. PAKSAT-1, which provides transponder bandwidth in the C and Ku-band is currently supporting quite a few Pakistani satellite TV channels. PAKSAT International has also started marketing activities in Africa & Middle East regions [...]

Over 300 scientists and mathematical experts from all over the world are expected to participate in the second three-day ‘World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics’ to be held in the city from March 4. Higher Education Commission chairman Dr Attaur Rehman will inaugurate the conference being organized by the School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) of [...]

Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) laboratories of Hyderabad have come up with solar dehydrators for increasing dates production, especially in district Khairpur, officials said on Monday. Sindh’s district Khairpur is considered as one of the largest date growing area in Pakistan but the growers have failed to fully utilise the potential of [...]

The first biodiversity park of its kind in the world was officially launched on Monday by representatives of united Nations Economic and Social commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP), the government and the private sector in Morgah, Rawalpindi. The project was completed to the tune of 155,000 dollars. The Morgah Biodiversity Park Project is the [...]

The National Engineering and Scientific Commission (Nescom) is developing a science city in the capital by establishing six centres of excellences in different disciplines for post-doctoral research. A National Centre for Physics is also being planned as another step towards providing younger physicists a chance to prepare for future challenges, he said. The machines installed [...]