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App Inventor by Google

By Sadaf • Jul 14th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Google’s App Inventor for Android, a web-based development environment that’s meant to make it possible for non-developers to build their own Android applications. So now you can start developing for your own phone without any technical glitch.
Flash and web editors like Front Page and their ilk led to an explosion in web sites because you [...]



Federal Public Service Commission Result Status

By Sadaf • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: Misc

The Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) here on Friday withdrew the earlier notified names of the successful candidates who appeared in the Competitive Examination-2009 and qualified for the recruitment against BS-17 posts under the federal government.
The action was taken after some mistakes were pointed out in the result affecting the merit, [...]



Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) Result and Admit Card

By Sadaf • Mar 23rd, 2010 • Category: Misc

Rangers and police personnel baton-charged hundreds of students and their parents who gathered outside the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) office to collect their admit cards just two days ahead of the examinations. Thousands of private and regular candidates for the BSEK’s annual examinations-2010 for Class IX and X are [...]



Ayman Udas, Pushto Singer shot by her brothers

By Sadaf • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Misc

A RISING musical star was allegedly shot dead by her own brothers in the conservative city of Peshawar in Pakistan last week after she had appeared on television.
The murder of Ayman Udas, who was in her early thirties and newly married, has shocked the city’s artistic community because it symbolises a backlash [...]