Tag: Sun

VIDEO: Kaukab Noorani defies science, says earth can’t revolve

Eminent religious scholar Kaukab Noorani has expressed his disbelief in the widely-accepted scientific fact that earth orbits around the sun in a video which...

Getting old getting weaker? Sun’s 2013 solar activity peak is weakest...

Though the sun is currently in the peak year of its 11-year solar weather cycle, our closest star has been rather quiet over all,...

NASA discovers ice on the planet closest to the sun

Space’s mysteries continue to baffle scientists across the nation as NASA finds ice on Mercury. Tests run by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which arrived on...

Kaymer makes it a German double at Sun City

Martin Kaymer clinched his first title of 2012 as he won the Nedbank Golf Challenge in rainy conditions at the Gary Player Country Club...

Rogue planet without a sun spotted in interstellar space

In images, it doesn’t look like much: just a blue dot against the black of space. What’s exciting about this little planet is that...

The Sun defies royal family to print nude Harry snaps

Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid The Sun published nude photographs of Prince Harry on Friday, claiming it defied royal orders not to print them in...

British police arrest Sun journalist, policeman

Police arrested a journalist from Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling British tabloid The Sun and a policeman on Tuesday for alleged corruption, Scotland Yard and the...

Cabinet decides legal action against ‘The Sun’ in Olympic visa scandal

The Federal Cabinet on Wednesday expressed grave concern over Olympic Visa Scandal involving Pakistanis and decided to take legal action against British newspaper ‘The...

Venus makes its transit across Sun

Venus, the second closest planet to the Sun, on Wednesday crossed the Sun’s face in a rare astronomical event that will not be seen...

China wants to make hay while the sun shines

Pakistan and China have discussed investment opportunities in energy sector and various proposals for “on grid” and “off grid” solar energy solution. A...

Sun journalists mull legal action as Murdoch flies in

Journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun have contacted a trade union to discuss suing the British tabloid’s owners, the union said, after five staff...

‘Pakistani media is a source of confusion’

The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) invited prominent short story writer, novelist, poet and journalist Anwar Sun Rai as the chief guest in the...

$17m from Land of the Rising Sun to save many lives

Japan came to the rescue of 2.5 million rain- and flood-hit people of Sindh - facing the possibility of death by starvation - by...

Profiteers make hay while the Ramadan sun shines

The government has failed to control the prices of products used most commonly during Ramadan. A survey by Online in Islamabad on Sunday showed...

Pakistan Muslim League-Q makes hay while the sun shines

As the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is the only hope for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government to survive the jolt it suffered with...

The sun rises in the east

In these turbulent times for the country it would not be wrong to suggest that Pakistan’s economic fortunes are tied to the east and...

Sun power to ensure your meal is served hot, at a...

KARACHI - Pakistan-born American is keen familiarise the people living in the rural areas of Pakistan with the technology of home-made, non-patent and cheap 'solar box cooker' as his social responsibility.
"I have come here to show the world's cheapest solar box cooker, a simple technology that uses sunlight to bake and cook plain rice, prepare lentils and other foods on daily basis in a covered casserole, a porcelain-enamel cooking dish," said Pakistani expatriate Afzal Syed in