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Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?

NEW YORK: Cigarette smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers, and the more a person smokes, the lower their IQ, according to a study of over 20,000 Israeli military recruits.
Dr. Mark Weiser and colleagues from Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer found that young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more had [...]

Clash erupts between 2 student groups in Bahawalpur

BAHAWALPUR: The clash between the two student groups in Islamia University Baghdad campus in Bahawalpur caused five students injured on Friday.

The violent students started firing in the campus which caused five students injured.
The violent students also held protest at the Bahaalpur-Hasil road. Police have reached to maintain law and order in the university.

Financial constraints: Youths’ access to higher education alarmingly low, says HEC

ISLAMABAD: Financially disadvantaged youths’ access to higher education in Pakistan is alarmingly low, Higher Education Commission (HEC) observed on Thursday during a national videoconference for developing new student loan programme.
HEC organised the conference under the USAID funded programme, which aims at providing technical assistance to HEC and USAID-partner universities across Pakistan in financial aid and [...]

AIOU daily wagers lead a life of uncertainty

ISLAMABAD: Around 450 workers of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), most of them engaged for over a decade, are daily wagers. They are contracted for 89 days and after gape of one day their contracts are renewed.
AIOU Deputy Registrar M Ismail Fahmi told Daily Times that an employee hired in scale two received Rs 253 [...]

Online forms for US visas

Islamabad-The US Embassy, Islamabad, and US Consulate, Karachi, will require non-immigrant visa applicants to use a new web-based application form starting February 22, 2010, says a press release.
The new DS-160 application form incorporates all existing applications into one interactive, online form, replacing the forms that currently make up the Electronic Visa Application and Parental Information [...]

Romeo (student) takes his life

LAHORE-A THIRD year student Wednesday ended his life by taking poisonous pills in the Naseerabad police area.
The deceased was identified as Ghazanfar, 18, a resident of Gujranwala. Police said he was presently living at Model Town Colony, Naserabad, and studying in a institute.

Police said that Ghazanfar fell in love with his relative girl and wanted [...]

Trade & peace: are they linked?

Few people know that from amongst the more than 100 countries with which Pakistan trades, India is Pakistan’s ninth largest trading partner.
This means that Pakistan traded far more with India than it did with France, Italy, Thailand, Iran, Canada, Malaysia and, surprisingly, even Japan in 2007-08, the latest year for which we have complete data.
Moreover, [...]

Vancouver named world’s most livable city

NEW YORK: No matter how much criticism Vancouver is taking for it’s weather, the British Columbian city takes the title as the world’s most livable city, according to a new poll.

The survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, marks the second consecutive year Vancouver, the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, has topped the list. [...]

Youth in grip of ‘Sheesha’ smoking

Islamabad-‘Sheesha’ smoking addiction is spreading fast among youth in capital infecting the college and university students of upper class.
‘Sheesha’, traditionally known as ‘Hookah’ was considered to be an integral part of rural south Asia.
One can still picture a shaded spot under a tree in rural areas of the country where three or four elderly folks [...]

Speak out-Students

Rabia Ali talks to students and young professionals around the country about their views on Pakistan-India relations
Gullalai Khan, 24-year-old, student, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar
“As a medical student I feel that it is extremely vital that the two countries bury the hatchet, and work together in the field of medicine. As India is very much ahead [...]