PESHAWAR: After one year of the horrific attack on the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar, many surviving students find it hard to concentrate on their coursework as the gory incident keeps flashing back in their minds to distract them from studies...
Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2015...
‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ triptych (a panel painting that is divided into three sections), (1969), oil on canvas, 78 inches × 58 inches for each canvas, depicts fellow artist Lucian Freud...
ASHGABAT: Shareholders of a planned gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) agreed on Thursday to invest $200 million in studies and engineering for the $10 billion project...
“We will use these funds to carry out various studies, preliminary engineering, environmental design and various research of the route,” Turkmenistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Yagshygeldy Kakayev told reporters in the Turkmen...
MOUNT IDA: Scientists are warning that the plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the US shutter their long-standing collections of plant species...
Since 1988, the number of research universities offering botany degrees has dropped by half, according to National Science Foundation research funding statistics
WASHINGTON: Human activity is leading to the rapid draining of about one-third of the planet’s largest underground water reserves and it is unclear how much fluid remains in them, two new studies have found...
“What happens when a highly stressed aquifer is located in a region with socioeconomic or political tensions that can’t supplement declining water supplies fast enough?” said Alexandra Richey, the lead author on both studies... ...
Vietnam stopped the mobilisation of gold in 2011, and a similar move was applied for the dollar in 2015 when the zero per cent interest rate for dollar deposits came into effect...
SBV applied the zero per cent dollar deposit policy in December 2015, which has contributed to curbing dollarisation in the economy, controlling inflation and stabilising the macro economy...
HYDERABAD: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director Jerry Bisson and his deputy Denise Herbol, along with Sindh Minister for Education Jam Mehtab Dahar inaugurated the US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Water at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) on Thursday...
Citing the multidimensional and multifaceted water-related challenges being faced by Pakistan, the minister...
QUETTA: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (Buitems) signed an agreement on Wednesday for establishing a ‘Centre for Refugees and Migration Studies (CRMS)’ where training for teachers and opportunities for entrepreneurship/business studies for students will be ensured...
Pakistan has been generously hosting refugees for...
MIAMI: Three different experimental Zika vaccines being developed in the United States have worked well in monkey studies, paving the way for human trials in the coming months, researchers said Thursday...
The minister was delivering an address at the opening ceremony of the Centre for Bioequivalence Studies and Clinical Research at the ICCBS...
He described Pakistan-China economic corridor as an initiative that would change Pakistan’s destiny...
To support gender and women’s studies, a project was launched at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) under the Gender Equity Program (GEP) of the Aurat Foundation...
Orientation workshops will be conducted over 15 months which will be aimed at strengthening the university’s Gender and Women’s Studies Department and help it in conducting research-based studies...
KABUL: A group of Afghan students gathered on the leafy campus of Kabul University this week to embark on an unlikely course - the country's first Master's degree in gender and women's studies...
Teaching women's studies at graduate level should help spread awareness and send people into the workforce who can promote equality, the faculty and students said...
” The boy was aiming to enter one of the leading private schools in Aichi prefecture and his father had regularly scolded him over his studies, NHK said, citing people with knowledge of the family...
Translation studies is now considered a discipline that intermingles many disciplines, such as literature, linguistics, semantics, lexicography and terminography...
It is with a sense of satisfaction that one notes the popularity of translation studies in Pakistan in recent years as a number of Pakistani universities have started courses on translation studies, applied translation studies or similar disciplines...
TAMPA: Two major studies released on Sunday show that many people with breast and lung cancers may forgo chemotherapy and still live longer, signaling a waning need for what was long seen as the standard of cancer care...
The drug was approved in 2014 for melanoma and in 2015 for lung cancer...