OKARA - DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah said the standard of education in government school has improved due to effective monitoring.He stated this during visits to Government Model Girls High School and Government Islamia High School New Campus here the other day.District Monitoring Officer Afzal ...

LAHORE Pakistan tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq has improved his international ranking and has reached 17th position in the latest doubles ranking. His doubles world ranking improved after he qualified for an ATP event final. Aisam has obtained 150 points and reached the 17th position in the ...

Adolescents who had consumed two or more servings of dairy products daily as children have been found to have higher levels of bone mineral content and bone density than those who did not. Until recently, it was unclear how long-term dairy intake contributes to bone health in children, including ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Americans are flooding back into the job market as the economy slowly improves, the Labour Department said Friday, reporting a barn-busting 290,000 jobs were created in April. President Barack Obama hailed the figures as a very encouraging sign that the US economy is emerging ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan has jumped 11 places from last years 98 to 87 in the rankings of the Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010 released on Thursday by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Pakistan has done well to make a significant leap and should continue to do so if more investments ...

KARACHI - The risk-based capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of all banks operating in the country has improved to 14.3 percent in the quarter ending on Sept. 30, 2009. Quarterly Performance Review of the Banking System of State Bank released here on Wednesday said the banking system showed strong ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The troubled US labor market saw a dramatic improvement in November as the number of jobs lost narrowed to 11,000 and the unemployment rate dipped to 10.0 percent, official data showed Friday. The Labor Department jobs figures showed a massive improvement from October and earlier ...

GOOD news for procrastinating students: a nasal spray developed by a team of German scientists promises to give late night cram sessions a major boost, if a good nights sleep follows. In a research report featured as the cover story of the October 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, these ...

THE 'hairdryer treatment and criticism may get quick results, but sportsmen respond much better to kinds words of encouragement and support, scientists have found. Sportsmen and women could get the edge on their opponents by accepting more emotional support in their personal and professional ...

VIDEO games can give a boost to an elderly person's brainpower, scientists have found. Interactive games can improve the mental functions that decline most with age, said Professor Arthur Kramer, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. His researchers recruited 40 people in their ...

KARACHI - Like stock market, the dollar-rupee parity also took a U-turn on Wednesday and improved by Rs 1.25, closing at Rs 75. During the past two days the rupee gained a substantial value against the US dollar after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf. But this gain in the value of ...

The rupee value regained strength by 2.4 percent in the inter-bank market on Friday following the State Bank of Pakistan's further hardening of the monetary policy and imposition of 35 percent cash margin on LCs for import. At the outset of Friday's trade the dollar sold cheaper by Rs1 at Rs68.90 ...