Health experts warn against tobacco industry’s marketing gimmicks to attract youth

ISLAMABAD: Health experts have shown concerns over the deceptively dangerous marketing tactics of tobacco industry to attract the youth. In a press release issued here on Tuesday by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), the experts warned that tobacco was the health hazard that leads to death and a […]

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A 5-day rain spell likely to start from June 30: DG Met office

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Director General Mehar Sahibzada Khan said on Tuesday that a 5-day rain spell likely to start from Thursday which would continue till July 4. Moist currents from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal would likely to enter in upper parts of the country from 29th June (Wednesday) which may intensify […]

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AIOU’s online learning system frustrates students, call it “a mess”

ISLAMABAD: A large majority of Allama Iqbal Open University students expressing displeasure, over online learning and management system’s poor connectivity and abrupt failure, have called it “a mess”. AIOU management’s two online learning and management initiatives, Campus Management System (CMS) and Learning Management System (LMS) that switched over traditional education have failed to produce desired […]

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Street criminal arrested; pistol, bullets recovered: Police

HYDERABAD: The police have arrested a suspect during an operation and recovered a pistol and live rounds of bullets from his possession. According to spokesman, a police team of P.S B-Section arrested a suspected street criminal, identified as Nouman Shaikh and seized a 30 bore pistol and bullets from him. During the interrogation, the arrested […]

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President Alvi for promoting market oriented study of arts subjects

KARACHI: President Dr. Arif Alvi, on Tuesday stressed the need of academic surveys and research to assess and enhance market value of different faculties, especially of arts related subjects for encouragement of students to study arts and literature as these subjects helped grooming comprehensive human personality. He chairing a meeting with the faculty of Federal […]

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