2015-07-02 Pakistan More Top Stories

The News International   

Foreign funding: SC censures centre, provinces for not regulating NGOs   
The Express Tribune
The Supreme Court has come down hard on the federal and provincial governments for failing to take adequate steps to regulate the activities of foreign funded nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in Pakistan some six months after the National Action ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Science

Think-tank formed to devise climate protection policies   
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has formed a high level think-tank of experts, who would support the ministry to taking better and informed decisions in various areas of climate change and allied issues. The think-tank, called the ...
Government sets up first think-tank on climate change   Business Recorder (press release) (blog)

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NBCNews.com   

A Drone Airplane for Mars? Way-Out Red Planet Ideas Are Taking Flight   
NBCNews.com
NASA has been talking about sending airplanes to Mars for more than a decade, but the revolution in small satellites and drone airplanes just might turn the concept into a reality at last. If the plan being hatched at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research ...
Revealed: NASA's first plane to Mars   India Today
NASA to Test a Prototype for Surveying Landing Sites on the Red Planet   NY City News
NASA wants to send a space boomerang to Mars   TechnoBuffalo
Computerworld   
Voice of America (blog)   
Christian Science Monitor   
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The Australian Financial Review   

SpaceX shows space station supply is, actually, as hard as rocket science   
The Australian Financial Review
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft breaks apart shortly after liftoff at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sunday. John Raoux. by The Lex Column. Most businesses are more straightforward than rocket science. Resupplying the ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Health

The Express Tribune   

Religious scholars endorse family planning   
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: The Population Council has sought the help of religious scholars to help convince people that they should plan their families. A declaration endorsing the use of all methods of birth control for family planning and birth spacing was signed ...
Maternal mortality: Ulema offer unanimous support   The Express Tribune
Religious scholars endorse birth spacing   The Nation
Evolution: Your tax dollars doing good   Redlands Daily Facts

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Businessinsider India   

A simple device could get rid of one of the most frustrating parts of living ...   
Businessinsider India
Imagine having to poke yourself with a needle and draw blood. Now imagine having to do that up to eight times a day. That can be what it's like for many people with diabetes, a disease that causes our bodies to either resist the effects of insulin ...
Implantable 'artificial pancreas' tracks blood sugar, releases insulin   UPI.com
Bacteria - The new buddy !   Times of India

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Times of India   

UN issues first-ever guidance to combat heatwaves   
Times of India
GENEVA: For the first time, the United Nations today issued a new joint guidance for countries to address the health risks posed by heatwaves that have become more frequent and deadlier over the last 50 years, recently killing over 3,000 people in ...
UN unveils guidelines for heat wave health risks   Press TV
Saudi's SAFCO posts fifth straight profit decline   Business Recorder (press release) (blog)
UN warns of risks as Europe enjoys scorcher   Reuters
News24   
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Live Science   

Diabetes drug helps people lose weight – UK study   
GMA News
Liraglutide, an injectable diabetes drug that US regulators approved last year for weight loss, helped obese people lose an average of 18 pounds (eight kilograms), a yearlong study said Wednesday. Most patients were able to keep the weight off for the ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Entertainment

Times of India   

Will Salman Khan travel to Pakistan?   
Times of India
Since Bajrangi Bhaijaan's story revolves around a mute Pakistani girl lost in India, promoting the film in the neighboring country would be an obvious thought. According to a report on Bollywoodhungama.com, Salman Khan had claimed that if a premiere of ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Sports

Telegraph.co.uk   

Rashid, Finn named in England squad for Ashes opener   
DAWN.com
LONDON: Uncapped Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid and Middlesex fast bowler Steven Finn were both called into a 13-man England squad announced on Wednesday for next week's first Ashes Test against Australia in Cardiff. Rashid, 27, who has played ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Technology

PCWorld   

Windows 8.1 seizes undisputed lead over Windows XP   
PCWorld
Microsoft's end of support for Windows XP is having its desired effect, with Windows 8.1 pulling ahead in usage share. While Windows 8.1 overtook XP last year according to StatCounter, that lead is now undisputed with Netmarketshare posting similar ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Business

The Express Tribune   

SHC suspends CAA's order against airline   
DAWN.com
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court shelved on Wednesday the Civil Aviation Authority's order that suspended operations of the private Air Indus airline. A two-judge bench issued the order on an application of the airline which sought an urgent hearing on ...
Air Indus to fly again after SHC grants stay to underfire carrier   The Express Tribune
SHC dismisses CAA suspension of Air Indus operations   The News International
SHC suspends CAA's order halting operation of Air Indus   Pakistan Today
The News Teller   
Daily Times   
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The Nation   

Reserves set new record at $18.5b   
The Nation
"Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar has extended felicitations to Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif and the whole Pakistani nation on this important achievement", said a brief statement issued by the Finance Ministry here. Pakistan received seventh ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan Pakistan

The Nation   

Nawaz urges accountability over heat deaths   
The Nation
KARACHI - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed grief and sorrow over the heatwave deaths and urged provincial government to take those to task who shirked from their responsibilities in the critical time. Chairing a meeting on recent intense heatwave ...
Those responsible for heatwave deaths to face action, says PM   The News International
Sharif orders inquiry into Karachi heatwave deaths   Khaleej Times
Nawaz orders inquiry into heatwave deaths   Daily Times
Business Recorder (press release) (blog)   
The Hindu   
DAWN.com   
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The Express Tribune   

Resolving overseas Pakistanis' issues a priority: ombudsman   
The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: All-out efforts would be made to resolve the issues of overseas Pakistanis on a priority basis. They are the backbone of the country and they represent the face of the country abroad. This was stated by Federal Ombudsman Salman Farooqi while ...

2015-07-02 Pakistan World

Wall Street Journal   

Scores Killed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as Militants, Army Clash   
Wall Street Journal
CAIRO—Fierce fighting between Islamist militants and Egyptian army forces in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday left at least 117 people dead, state media said, in the bloodiest clashes between the two sides since Hosni Mubarak was forced from ...