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Archive |2021-10-31 23:40:41
NBP assures customers' financial data not compromised, systems repaired following cyberattack

The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) assured on Sunday that customers' financial data has not been compromised and "has remained protected, confidential and secured", following a cyberattack on its IT infrastructure on night of Oct 29...
"In its latest statement on the situation, the NBP said it had countered the threats and repaired the affected parts of its systems and that "banking services including ATMs and the disbursement of...
Pakistan |2017-09-14 07:00:04
Police fail to check laser beams being flashed at aircraft

RAWALPINDI: Repeated incidents of laser beams being flashed at passenger aircraft taking off from and landing at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) have caused concern among pilots and aviation authorities, while the police have not been able to control the problem...
A slight distraction caused by a flashing laser could result in catastrophe, he said...
World |2016-04-28 13:08:59
India activates eight laser walls along border with Pakistan

NEW DELHI: India has set up eight laser walls along the shared border with Pakistan and plans to activate four more over the next few days, Times of India reported, citing a senior Indian Border Security Force (BSF) official...
A laser wall is a mechanism to detect objects passing the line of sight between the laser source and the detector...
Archive |2016-01-18 07:00:06
India plans laser walls on border

NEW DELHI: India plans to cover more than 40 vulnerable unfenced stretches along the Pakistan border by laser walls soon, with the home ministry giving it a top priority to prevent any infiltration, Times of India says in a report quoting a home ministry official...
All the riverine stretches located in Punjab would be covered by the laser wall technology developed by the Indian Border Security Force to eliminate the chances of breach...
Archive |2017-03-29 07:04:35
Tanveer bags National Laser Sailing title

KARACHI: Warrant Officer Mohammad Tanveer of the PAF shocked naval sailors by crowning the title of the national laser sailing championship which concluded in the open sea of Karachi harbor on Tuesday...
Off late, airmen have managed to break the stranglehold of the Navy by winning the third national title in four months the other two being Laser Radial and Mistral...
Archive |2018-10-02 21:25:02
Laser pioneers from US, France and Canada win Nobel Physics Prize

Ashkin was honoured for his invention of “optical tweezers” that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with their laser beam fingers...
According to Ian Musgrave of Britain's Central Laser Facility, optical tweezers make it possible to use lasers to manipulate very small objects, such as beads of glass or oil droplets, to position them precisely or control the environment around them...
World |2021-12-16 09:05:03
US Navy fires laser weapon in Mideast

DUBAI: The US Navy announced on Wednesday it tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast, a system that could be used to counter bomb-laden drone boats deployed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea...
The test on Tuesday saw the USS Portland test-fire its Laser Weapon System Demonstrator at the target in the Gulf of Aden, the body of water separating East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula...
World |2022-02-20 10:35:00
Australia says China warship fired laser at its patrol plane

BRISBANE: The Australian Defence Department said that a Chinese navy ship fired a laser at one of its surveillance aircraft, putting the lives of the crew in danger...
The incident happened on Thursday when the P-8A Poseidon plane detected a laser illuminating the aircraft while in flight over Australia’s northern approaches, the department said...
Archive |2018-08-17 11:05:02
Experts fear Bus Rapid Transit projects to have limited impact in Karachi

KARACHI: The city is expanding with the needs of its citizens changing and developing...
As people from Sindh’s interior come to settle in Karachi we see the katchi abadis coming up because for a salaried person it is very difficult to get home ownership...
Archive |2020-12-25 07:01:30
PSL may be limited to Karachi, Lahore due to Covid-19

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering a proposal to limit the next edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) to two venues, Karachi and Lahore, due to the prevailing Covid-19 situation, it has emerged...
According to sources, though it was not an approved option but most likely that all the 34 matches of PSL 2021 would be staged in Karachi and Lahore, with both the cities hosting equal number of games...
Pakistan |2018-04-23 17:15:05
Careem users' personal data compromised in massive data breach

Ride-hailing service Careem on Monday warned users that their personal data had been compromised in a massive cyber-security breach...
The company stated that sensitive information like customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers and trip history data had been stolen by hackers...
Pakistan |2015-04-16 06:35:46
Time may not allow biometric, CCTV systems for by-poll: Qaim

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the Sindh Rangers director-general in a recent meeting with him had brought proposal for the introduction of biometric system and installation of CCTV cameras at polling stations in the NA-246 Karachi bypoll...
Pakistan |2017-08-21 07:12:46
Nescom’s role in developing missile systems praised

RAWALPINDI: Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, visited the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (Nescom) on Sunday and highlighted its significant contributions to developing an array of state-of-the-art strategic missile systems that have made the country’s defence formidable...
Expressing satisfaction over the development and progress of various strategic systems and capabilities, he...
World |2017-09-12 15:03:36
Turkey signs deal to buy Russian S-400 missile systems

Turkey has signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 missile defence systems in its first major weapons purchase from Moscow, Turkish newspapers on Tuesday quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying...
The purchase of the missile systems from a non-Nato supplier will raise concerns in the West over their compatibility with the alliance's equipment...
Pakistan |2017-10-05 05:50:33
Pakistan Railways develops IT-based train accident reducing systems

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways has developed two indigenous IT-based solutions, which are expected to reduce train accidents and help improve its safety record...
The ‘Train Approaching Warning System at Level Crossing’ (TAWC) and ‘Train Collision Avoiding System’ (TCAS) have been finalised and five prototypes will be installed at the busiest level crossings by December this year to check the new signalling system