Friday, June 01, 2012, Rajab 10, 1433
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Karachi
Four more become target of violence in cityKarachi—The renewed wave of drive-by assaults continued in the metropolis, claiming four more innocent and precious lives sparking panic in various localities Thursday with business activities suspended. According to police, unknown motorcycle riders shot dead rangers’ sup-inspector Abdul Hameed Chachar, while he was present outside his home located in Korangi area and sped away from the scene. In Maripur, armed assailants gunned down one person. The body was shifted to local hospital where identity of deceased was yet to be confirmed.Dr Nabi Bux Baloch was imbibed with Aligarh spirit: Pir MazharM M Alam Karachi—Provincial Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has maintained that (late) Dr. Nabi Bux Baloch who was imbibed with the Aligarh spirit was not only a Sindhi but an internationally acclaimed scholar & educationist. He was speaking at a literary reference held here jointly by Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET) & Pakistan Academy of Letters.
‘Women Fantasies’ painting exhibitionStaff Reporter Karachi—The word fantasy has quite a few meanings. It refers to the constant habit of dreaming about a certain object that one wishes to acquire, or a goal that one wants to achieve. Daydreaming is also a factor here, which is more to do with unfulfilled desires.
An exhibition of paintings titled Women Fantasies by Zebun Zuby and Aliya Faizi, which opened at the Fine Art Gallery recently, hinted at the artists’ attempt at trying to impart concreteness to their fantasies (read: dreams).
World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco kills 6m people every yearStaff Reporter Karachi—Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are people exposed to second-hand smoke.
The number of deaths will increase up to 8 million people by 2030, of which more than 80% will live in low and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) has selected “tobacco industry interference” as the theme of the 2012 World No Tobacco Day, which was observed on Thursday.
How to stay healthy at workGOSSIPING at the water cooler? Try catching germs there. The microwave door and refrigerator handle are among the dirtiest places in a typical office, according to a new study from commercial products company Kimberly-Clark Professional. Researchers swabbed nearly 5,000 surfaces in office buildings that house about 3,000 employees, including law firms, insurance companies, call centers, and manufacturing facilities. “It’s a very specific examination of what places are most problematic,” says Jack Brown, a professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, who was not involved in the study. “It’s common sense—think about where people go and what they touch.” |
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