National Database & Registration Authority, NADRA has developed an SMS service application to facilitate citizens to verify their vote registration and particulars in the voters’ list, Deputy Chairman NADRA, Tariq Malik stated this in a statement issued here today.

NADRA and ECP signed agreements with telecom companies to forge a partnership in order to launch this service.
“I congratulate Ufone, WARID and Telenor who stood up and offer their platforms for this national interest, and expect the companies who are sitting on fence to step up to the challenge and contribute on national cause” said Tariq Malik.

He added that this service would be initiated soon after the publication of Preliminary (ghair hatmi) electoral rolls (PER) for public display.

Tired of groping for your glasses every morning and placing your lenses in their solution every night before turning in? Well you are one of many looking to find an alternative option. The common vision problems (or refractive errors) people experience include short sightedness, long sightedness and astigmatism. These problems are generally dependent on the shape of the eye and the transparent curtain in front of it called the cornea.
Now a sureshot way to get rid of specs and contact lenses has been found. To break it down to brass tacks, the procedure in many ways defies the typical picture of a surgery. First of all, there are lasers involved, as evident by the name — laser refractive eye surgery. Second, the ophthalmologists work in a bloodless field at a microscopic level.

ISLAMABAD: She passed an O-level chemistry paper when she was nine; two years later she passed the O-level exams in biology, mathematics, physics and English. She was the youngest to appear for biology and the youngest to have successfully completed her O-levels. Now, she prepares for the A-level exams.

Born and brought up in a small town near Chenab Nagar in Punjab, Sitara Brooj Akbar is the eldest of her five siblings. At a young age, she developed a habit of questioning everything taking nothing for granted, according to her father Brooj Akbar.

Those 15 seconds, when you’re anxiously waiting for the red signal that is just about to turn green- a small child comes up to your car sticking his face in the window as hard as he can to make himself seen, or holding consumer goods, like tissue packets, biscuits, combs etc. asks you to buy something from him. Sometimes, they run to your front windscreen and start wiping the windscreen with water looking so dirty as if it was an algae habitat. Or sometimes, they just come to you selling their prayers for minimal change. And the ordinary man, thinking that he can do a good deed for the day takes out a shiny 5 rupee coin or a ten rupee note, and hands it over to that child.

A total lunar eclipse will occur on December 10, 2011. This will be second of two lunar eclipses in 2011. The first was in June. There will not be another lunar eclipse for three years.

It will be visible from all of Asia and Australia, will be seen rising over eastern Europe and setting over North America.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon goes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from reaching the moon. This can occur only when the moon, earth, and sun are aligned. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse can be viewed by the majority of the world. Also, it is safe to view a lunar eclipse, unlike a solar eclipse which leaves people blind.