Scientists in the United States have created super-charged immune cells that helped beat back cancer tumours in half of a small group of patients tested, according to a study released Sunday. Continue reading »
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The world’s first public park, Peel Park, was opened in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1864. It was the first of three public parks opened that year, all of which had been financed by public subscription. The reasons why these and other public parks were created carry important lessons for anyone concerned with the state of our cities. Our regressive attitude towards the public park and other community or green spaces can be understood only when the social and political context of the urban public park is considered. Continue reading »
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CHILDREN who avoid milk and don’t get enough calcium-rich substitutes may face an increased risk of breaking a bone. Calcium, along with vitamin D and other nutrients, is essential for building and maintaining strong bones.
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When a healthy baby keeps crying for no known reason, it is called colic. Doctors usually consider babies to have colic if they cry: Continue reading »
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All that exercise of putting our clocks back by one hour at midnight on Friday may be seen as an indication that we have a sincere relationship with time. After all, this is what they do in western climes. The idea is to save the daylight in summer months. In our case, though, the argument – when clocks were set forward by one hour on June 1 this year – was that it would also save energy by giving us an extra hour of daylight in the evening. Continue reading »
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The man who became a senator at the age of 43 and the senator who would now become the president at the age of 47. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He has been a civil rights lawyer, a community organizer and an academic (he taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School for 12 years).
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Honestly what can you say about this country that does not border on the macabre? I mean look at the spate of events unfolding at the speed of light as we are rocked, buffeted and thrown about by forces over which we have absolutely no control. Pakistan’s woes, largely self-inflicted by one lot of hardened criminals passing off as the country’s saviours are then Continue reading »
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SHR Jahfery
The advanced Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN), launched by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) that is connected to global Research and Education Networks (RENs) including the Internet2 of USA, Asia-Pacific Advanced Network of continents of Asia and Australia, and GEANT2 network of National RENs of European countries, is fully operational for use by researchers, academicians and students who may initiate activities and projects with international collaborations.
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By Irfan Ghauri
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat removed PML-Q Women’s Wing President Sumera Malik from the office on Saturday, after she beat up a female MNA from her party for not attending a dinner at the President’s House. Continue reading »
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We are not living through the last days of the crumbling Mughal Empire when state honours were doled out because the state had nothing else to give. And why are our people always seeking favours that they do not always deserve?
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I WAS called a prophet of doom by someone I met a couple of years ago at a dinner while discussing the economic scenario of Pakistan.
This guy, with a sheet of cloth wrapped around one of his shoulders was based in the US and was apparently an ardent admirer of Musharraf. I would love to meet him now; and others who sang Musharraf’s praises during the past eight years. Continue reading »
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SIALKOT: The construction work of 46-km long Sialkot-Daska-Gujranwala dual carriageway would begin in December 2008, as Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has released a special grant of Rs. 1.5 billion for this project.
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* College Road to be linked to Ring Road through Raiwind Road
* Project could not be executed earlier because of lack of funds
By Mansab Dogar
LAHORE: The Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (TEPA) and the National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) have prepared several feasibility reports to link various city roads to the proposed Ring Road in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase-II. Continue reading »
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Improving relations with the Afghans is undoubtedly going to be a long process, but it is doable. If it has taken us sixty years to begin to improve relations with India, we can hopefully take lesser time to succeed with Afghanistan
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If only the remote tribal regions of Pakistan could get as much attention and compassion when they bear the brunt of the unthinking cruelty of nature, perhaps they would be invested in the welfare of a world that so resolutely ignores them
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