lahore Ministry of Science and Technology on Tuesday withdrew a petition from the Supreme Court against a renowned scientist Riaz-ud-Din, who had cloned locally, a cheapest interferon for the poor hepatitis patients.Ikhlaq Ahmad Tarrar, Secretary of the Ministry, appeared before a two member bench ...

KARACHI - Pakistan’s leading scientists‚ Salimuzzaman Siddiqui was remembered Sunday (April 14) on his 19th death anniversary.Born in Subeha (Barabanki District) of Lukhnow on 19 October 1897‚ Salimuzzaman Siddiqui was a leading Pakistani scientist in Natural Product Chemistry. He ...

AN Iranian scientist claims to have invented a machine that allows users to travel up to eight years into the future.Ali Razeghi has registered his Aryayek Time Traveling Machine with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions, reports the Daily Telegraph.Mr Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked ...

Indian Supreme Court issued orders to release Pakistani Dr. Muhammad Khalil Chishti in New Delhi on Wednesday.Chishti was sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2011 after long trial for allegedly killing a relative in Ajmer in 1992.President Asif Ali Zardari had raised the issue of Chishti's ...

TEHRAN - Iran on Friday buried a top scientist it said was killed as part of an Israeli-American covert campaign against its nuclear programme, as a US-led drive for crippling sanctions ran into opposition even from allies.Meanwhile, diplomats in Vienna said the UN nuclear watchdog would send its ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) has conferred PAS gold medal on Prof Dr Khalid M Khan, a senior scientist of the International Centre for Chemical & Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Karachi University (KU), in recognition of his services in the field of chemistry. Spokesman to ICCBS, ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday accused the United States of abducting its nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri who went missing in Saudi Arabia earlier this year. Based on existing pieces of evidence that we have at our disposal the Americans had a role in Amiris ...

The grip enjoyed by men on the Nobel Prize for Economics was broken at last when in October 2009, Elinor Ostrom, a professor at the University of Indiana, became the first woman to be honoured with the award. However, more noteworthy perhaps is the fact that both Prof Ostrom and her fellow American ...

NEW DELHI (APP) - K Santhanam, who was Indian director for 1998 nuclear test site preparations in Pokhran test range, has disclosed that the thermonuclear explosions conducted at that time were 'actually of much below expectations and the tests were perhaps more a fizzle rather than a big bang. In ...

LAHORE - The renowned Pakistani scientist Dr Kazim R Chohan from Medical University of Syracuse, New York (USA) has said that inadvertent exposure to chemicals in the environment might predispose birth defects and reproductive failure in both males and females. According to a Press release, Dr ...