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Rise in sea level cannot be stopped Rise in sea level cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists have said. A lot of climate research showed that rising greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for increasing global […]
Earth to add a leap second today Today, “you get an extra second,” says Geoff Chester, spokesman at the U.S. Naval Observatory. “Don’t waste it.” International timekeepers are adding a second to the clock at midnight universal time (that’s 5 p.m. Pacific time). Universal time will be 11:59:59 — and then the unusual reading of […]
Government handed over with blood screening kits A two-year supply of blood screening kits was handed over to the government on Thursday. The kits, donated by the US government, will help conduct more than six million safe blood transfusions. A ceremony in this regard was held at the Mother and Child Centre of Pakistan Institute […]
PMA reports 40,000 quacks in Lahore City The Pakistan Medical Association(PMA) has vowed to support the Punjab government in an anti-quackery drive as 40,000 quacks are running clinics in the city and are playing with the lives of the patients for years. PMA leader Dr.Salman Kazmi, while talking to APP on Thursday, urged Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif to make operative the […]
Pakistani starlet, Veena Malik, could be better described as controversies’ favourite child. Say it her alleged affair with Ashmit Patel or her semi-nude act for a magazine cover, Ms Malik definately knows how to grab the limelight. Veena again made it possible to be in news after her show Swayamvar- Veena ka Vivah got cancelled due to […]
Study suggests scientists find it hard to do too much math Artistic types are not the only ones whose eyes glaze over when confronted with too many numbers, according to research out Monday that suggests scientists, too, find lots of equations hard to read. The study by researchers at the University of Bristol analyzed nearly […]
China planning to build a space station China’s goal of building a space station by 2020 has drawn closer, after the crew of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft docked with the Tiangong-1 space lab. With the presence of China’s first female astronaut, Liu Yang, 33, on the Shenzhou-9 mission already a huge source of national pride, China’s […]
Mongolia want their seized dinosaur skeleton back A dinosaur skeleton at the centre of an international legal dispute has been seized by US authorities on behalf of Mongolia, the country it is said to come from and which wants it back. The tyrannosaurus bataar had been sold at auction in New York for over a […]
Karachi to witness longest day of 2012 today. Karachi witnesses the year’s longest day of 14 hours on the summer solstice in Northern Hemisphere between June 20 and 22. It is the longest day of sunlight for places in the Northern Hemisphere and shortest for those in the Southern Hemisphere,” informed Dr Javed Iqbal, Director, […]
USA launches spy satellite The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday said it launched an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying a top secret satellite into space. The rocket lifted off in the morning, carrying a NROL-38 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Details of the satellite, its mission and whether it […]
The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab strike against the government’s alleged indifference towards their demand of service structure has entered third day Wednesday, Geo News reported. The YDA had shut down the outpatient departments (OPDs) of the public hospitals across the province in protest that caused huge inconvenience to the patients and their attendants. […]
Firestorm threatens wildlife A massive firestorm that hit Margalla Hills of Taxila range on Friday evening gutted vast forest area and destroyed wildlife and resident species, Dawn has learnt on Sunday. An official of Punjab forest department said that vast forest area of Taxila range near Khurram Paracha, Khurram Gujjar was completely engulfed by flames […]
