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SDPI and IDRC Canada award scholarships to South Asian students for higher studies in social sciences ISLAMABAD: (01 August 2012) Eight young and aspiring students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have been awarded scholarship grants by Sustainable Development Policy Institute and International Development Research Centre Canada to pursue Masters, MPhil […]
Islamabad: (Wednesday, August 01, 2012) Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader, Khawaja Asif said here today that donations given in the form of Zakat and Sadaqah to the Shaukat Khanum cancer hospital were sent abroad to be invested in the real estate markets. Alleging that the money was being misused, Asif claimed that the Zakat […]
The emerging energy nexus of China with the Central Asian States is now termed the New Great Game. China has its eyes set on Central Asia, thus prompting a New Great Game in a region where Europe, Russia and the US have sought power for a long time. Since the turn of the new millennium, […]
Lahore: (Wednesday, August 01, 2012) In a robbery incident here today, a private security guard took away 20 million rupees from a bank’s cash car. According to details, a retired policeman and currently a private guard Sher Ali took away four bags containing Rs 20 million from the cash van that came today at a […]
Islamabad: (Wednesday, August 01, 2012) The Accountant General Pakistan Revenues’ (AGPR) employees, in a hurriedly made decision, have decided to end the strike. The decision to end the strike was made by the Joint Action Committee (JAC), that was convened to reconsider the earlier decision to go on strike. The sources in the AGPR said […]
Islamabad: (Wednesday, August 01, 2012) The Supreme Court of Pakistan, on identical petitions against the contempt of court law, continued hearing today. Proceeding with the case hearing, the chief justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said that if parliamentarians committed contempt of court, the Speaker National Assembly or Chairman Senate were bound to send […]
Myanmar security forces killed, raped or carried out mass arrests of Rohingya Muslims after deadly sectarian riots in the northeast in June, a rights group said on Wednesday, adding the authorities had done little to prevent the initial unrest. Aid workers were blocked and in some cases arrested, and Rohingyas bore the brunt of […]
The US lawmakers are submitting their amendments to the Senate before their August recess, and the most important of these bills are related to cyber security. The republicans and democrats seem to be at an impasse on a mutual agreement on the cyber privacy infringements and security breaches. However, some of representatives are trying to […]
Sen. Ron Wyden filed his bill for three amendments in the cyber security. One of them was to restrict the policing of the government on the privacy of the users. According to the bill, the government should not ask for the user information from the likes of clouding services that store the user data on […]
The 2012 London Olympics organizing committee is blowing hot air at Beats Electronics, a US-based consumer products company that specializes in headphones. The International Olympics Committee is looking into the guerrilla marketing stunt undertaken by the company to promote its headphones through athletes participating in the Olympics. According to various reports, Beats headphones’ omnipresence in […]
More than 20 percent of the subscribers have used the network services from smartphones, which is promising for advertisers who are targeting those platforms Being a public company means lenient privacy settings. Facebook is now a public limited company and most of its, rather all of its activities are subject to be disclosed to the […]
Dropbox has admitted that it was under a spam attack due to security breach in the system. The company has contacted the users who had their accounts affected and offered services in case of any damage. About two weeks ago, several users received spam emails on casinos and gambling and instinctive reaction suggested there was […]
