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ISLAMABAD: A simple yet cost effective way to reduce stress or anxiety is chewing sugar-free gum, according to a study. It also showed that chewing gum increases alertness and improves performance while multi-tasking. Read More »Sugar-free chewing gum relieves stress
317 sites pointed out on canals for generating 600 MW electricity
Lahore: Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad has said that the Irrigation & Power Department can be an efficient platform for launching small hydel power generation as well as solar energy projects in the province to overcome the energy crisis.
Read More »Punjab most suitable for solar energy projects
LAHORE, Nov 13: Arsenic and fluoride contamination pose a growing threat to public health in the city, according to research undertaken by Dr Prof Kauser Jamal Cheema, head of the Environmental Science and Zoology Departments at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU).
Read More »Arsenic in Lahore’s water
By Ben Sheppard
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Islamabad often makes the news for suicide attacks, extremism and political upheaval, but for a small band of enthusiasts the city is famous for something very different — bird-watching.
Just 10 minutes drive from the centre of the capital city, there are mountains and wetlands teeming with exotic birds, while Islamabad’s many leafy gardens and avenues boast rare breeds that delight visiting ornithologists. Read More »Islamabad: a bird-watcher’s paradise
by Shahrukh Rafi Khan
In my last two essays I argued Pakistan has an adequate resource base and does not need to go to the IMF, and established that there is an alternative and superior economic program to the one advocated by the IMF. This leads us to the question of whether Pakistan’s economic bureaucracy has the capacity to implement such a programme if the legislature approves it.
Read More »Pak Economy: An alternative to the IMF programme
by Ayaz Amir
Those counting on Asif Ali Zardari’s reinvention, that as president he would cast off the baggage of the past and be a new man, can be reminded of a line from Dostoyevsky that the second half of a man’s life is but a continuation of the first half.
Read More »Islamabad diary: A president proving all too true to himself
By Muhammad Ahmad Noorani
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has dropped all corruption cases against politicians, both the government and the opposition, but is still working on 3,336 cases involving embezzlement of more than Rs 170 billion.
Despite the fact that corruption cases involving over Rs 500 billion were dumped under the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), the NAB has still a vital role to play, if the government allows it.
Read More »ISLAMABAD: NAB drops all corruption cases against politicians
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: In a blatant case of self-serving and conflict of interest, the top members of the civil bureaucracy, federal secretaries and officers of BS-22 have secretly ganged up to grab as many high-priced residential plots in Islamabad as is possible and have quietly got all the orders passed from a confused government.
Read More »Islamabad residential plots: Baboos grab the bounty
A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the bio fuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term ‘myco-diesel’ – a derivation of the word for fungus — to describe the bouquet of hydrocarbons that it breathes.
Read More »Will the Ferrari of tomorrow be fungus-powered?