…ion. Ghazala Javed and her father were killed when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them late on Monday Singers and dancers were particularly targeted by insurgents when they overran the area in 2007. Ghazala Javed at one point was also forced to stop singing because of threats. The singer, who was in her twenties, later married a businessman but they are thought to have divorced. Correspond…
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…which are expected to be unveiled over the course of the year. But larger OLED screens have proven difficult to manufacture due mainly to cost and reliability constraints. Another technology, known as 4K, has also been given a lot of attention from manufacturers. Dubbed “Ultra HD”, 4K offers 8 million pixels per frame – four times the resolution of 1080p high-definition displays…
LG Electronics has released what is described as the world’s biggest ultra-definition (UD) TV. LG UD TV sports an 84 in (213 cm) screen, smaller than a 90 in model made by Sharp, but LG boasts support for 4K, a more advanced picture format. The screen offers 8 million pixels per frame, four times the resolution of 1080p high-definition displays. The firm sees this technology as a key market…
Disney is exploring the use of 3D printers to build new kinds of light features into objects. The firm’s researchers are working on a range of techniques including “light pipes” and tubes of enclosed air that can be made to glow in controlled ways. They say that 3D printers can create objects with “micron accuracy” that would otherwise be more complicated and costly…
ngeance” after large outbreaks in Africa and Tajikistan and China’s first recorded cases for more than a decade. Declaring polio a national emergency, the Pakistani government is targeting 33 million children for vaccination with some 88,000 health workers delivering vaccination drops. Dr. Bruce Aylward of the WHO said that vaccination programmes had been suspended in other countries b…
Over 36 people have died in the past four weeks from taking oral drugs in Punjab province, Pakistan. The medicines were provided for free to cardiovascular patients at the government-owned Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore city. Thousands of prescriptions of these drugs were given to the patients during last month, said hospital officials. “More than 100 patients brought to various h…
…ah Rukh Khan was detained at the airport, which serves New York City. Shah Rukh Khan’s detention by US authorities for 90 minutes at White Plains airport near New York has sparked outrage in India In 2009 the actor was detained for two hours at Newark airport and was released after India’s embassy in the US intervened. Shah Rukh Khan said then that he was stopped because he had a Muslim nam…
