Massive whirlpools create funnels in the ocean Around 40 percent of the annual global carbon dioxide emissions absorbed by the world’s oceans enter the water through the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica. Reporting this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, British and Australian scientists reveal that rather than carbon being absorbed uniformly into the deep ocean […]
Jul 31 2012 | Posted in
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In quite an unprecedented move, the lawmakers from coalition parties lashed at the government for its failure to overcome electricity crisis, seeking resignation from Minister for Water and Power Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar. In the second session of the Upper House of the parliament, ANP (Awami National Party) Senators urged the government to kick-start the debate […]
In what appeared to be a quite dramatic move, Anti-Narcotics Force on Monday registered an FIR against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Hanif Abbasi for illegally acquiring 500 kilograms of ephedrine. Abbasi’s pharmaceutical company had procured half a tonne chemical surpassing the legal quota limits leaps and bounds, media reported. The FIR No 41/12 was […]
Jul 31 2012 | Posted in
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Spirited American talent Evan Geiselman and Australian powerhouse Kai Otton claimed top honours in their relative opening round (Round of 96) heats at the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Prime Nike US Open of Surfing that went down at the Huntington Beach in California, America, on Monday, July 30. America’s Tanner Gudauskas and French Polynesia’s […]
Jul 31 2012 | Posted in
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Terming his remarks as daydreaming, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has criticized President Asif Ali Zardari’s remarks about clean-sweep victory in the upcoming polls. Asking him to quit daydreaming, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who is also a senior member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, said the government had made the […]
Jul 31 2012 | Posted in
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India’s star batsman Suresh Raina has said that his team will look to play natural game and not to take any unnecessary pressure in remainder of the Sri Lanka tour. The Men in Blue are currently 2-0 up in the One Day International (ODIs), with two more games to be played later this week. After […]
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As part of the U.S. – North Africa Partnership for Economic Opportunity (NAPEO) Creative and Cultural Economy Incubator, a delegation from Algeria visited Washington DC, Jacksonville, Santa Fe, Detroit, and New York from July 7-29. The group discussed the role of the creative sector in economic development and in building international economic and cultural partnerships […]
Jul 30 2012 | Posted in
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The United States supports the outcome today at the Arms Trade Treaty Conference. While the Conference ran out of time to reach consensus on a text, it will report its results and the draft text considered back to the UN General Assembly (UNGA). The United States supports a second round of negotiations, conducted on the […]
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Muzaffargarh: (Monday, July 30, 2012) Federal Minister for information and broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said here today that under the given circumstances, the PML-N leaders should abstain from indulging into the politics of point scoring. He was of the view that this was high time all the political leaders sat together to strengthen the federation. […]
Karachi: (Monday, July 30, 2012) with summer season reaching at its peak, dengue has once again out broken, albeit, this time in a different provincial capital of Pakistan – Karachi. According to the news, in last one week, about 21 patients suffering from dengue have been admitted to different hospitals of the city. The number […]
Lahore: (Monday, July 30, 2012) taking notice of the un-parallel pattern of loadshedding across the country, Lahore High Court ordered here today that there should be uniformity in the loadshedding across Pakistan. The honorable court ordered this while hearing a petition filed by Advocate Azhar Siddique against the loadshedding during Sehri and Iftaar. While hearing […]
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Islamabad: (Monday, July 30, 2012) Malik Riaz Ahmed, the real estate tycoon and a central character in the Arsalan Iftikhar case, said here today that he was being implicated in false cases which were fabricated only to malign him. He said that he has sought more time from the court to present additional evidences against […]
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