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Board of Intermediate announced Pre-Eng and Science Group Results

PakBee — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:02:09 +0000

KARACHI: Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has released results of Intermediate Examination (Pre-Engineering and Computer Science) 2011 year.

BIEK Official Website: http://www.biek.edu.pk/

Geo TV Results: http://geo.tv/results

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Get Laptops at Installments from Meezan Bank

PakBee — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:45:07 +0000

Meezan Bank has launched a new consumer financing product, which is Shariah-compliant and it will allow individuals and businesses to purchase laptops on easy installments.

By obtaining this facility, consumers can get laptops at an easy installment of 3 to 24 months in total. The bank will not charge any profit or return for customers who opt for the 3 month or 6 month installment plan.

The product has been launched in collaboration with M/s. New Horizon and is available for only HP laptops. M/s. New Horizon will provide two years warranty with parts along with nationwide after sales services at the customers’ doorsteps.

An MoU for this arrangement was signed between Meezan Bank and New Horizon at Meezan Bank’s Head Office. Mr. Mohammad Raza, Head of Consumer Banking of Meezan Bank and Mr. Rahim Eqbal, COO of New Horizon signed the MoU.

Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Raza said that Meezan Bank has an active focus on developing customer-friendly, Islamic alternatives to conventional banking products, in line with its Mission to offer a one-stop shop for innovative value-added products and services to the customers within the bounds of Shariah.

Salient features:

2 years warranty with parts provided by vendor.
Free Caring Case will be provided by vendor.
Dedicated Call Center by New Horizon for addressing after sale issues and providing after sales support to the customers at their door step
Absolutely Free Takaful Coverage. All laptops acquired through Meezan Laptop Ease will be covered by Takaful (Islamic Insurance) before delivery to the customers
Minimum down payment up to 15%
Laptop model offerings will vary from time to time in consistence with the latest & upgraded features and market demand.
Minimum age to avail this offer for both individuals and businessmen should be 20 years and maximum age should not cross over 60 and 65 years, respectively.
Laptops are available at easy monthly installments of as low as Rs 2,750/ per month-

For more information, visit any Meezan Bank Branch or call helpline at +92-21-111-331-331

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SSC Matriculation Exams in Sindh from April 18

PakBee — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:10:06 +0000

KARACHI: The annual examination-2011 of secondary school certificate Part-I and II, (Science and General Group), commonly known as matriculation exams will start all across Sindh on 18th April 2011, Geo News reported.

Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) in different districts in Sindh will conduct exams.

Chairman BISE Karachi Prof. Anwar Ahmed Zai told media that the board had already completed all arrangements for conducting the matriculation exam.

He said the students who have failed to submit their examination forms due to any reason could appear in supplementary exam, adding such a decision has taken by Sindh Governor Dr. Ishratul Ebad Khan.

Chairman said that the candidates could not enter any examination centre without showing valid admit card.

He said more than 311000 male and female candidates will appear in the annual examination-2011 of BISE Karachi, to be held in 225 examination centres established in different private and government’s schools of the city.

He said that the SSC part-I exam would be held from 09:30 am to 12:30 pm, while SSC part-II be held from 02:30 pm to 05:30 pm as per schedule.

In case, a student changes his or her examination centre without permission of BISE Karachi, then action would be taken against the concerned centre superintendent and officers as per law, Prof. Zai said.

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Cheating on the Rise at UK Universities

PakBee — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:38:22 +0000

LONDON: Cheating is widespread in British universities, including the prestigious Oxford University, with over 17,000 incidents being recorded during the academic year 2009-2010, a survey has revealed.

The survey of more than 80 universities has found that academic misconduct is soaring at institutions across the UK, with thousands of students caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers and buying essays from the Internet.

Greenwich University recorded the largest number of cheating incidents overall, with 916, compared with 540 in 2005-06; Sheffield Hallam had the second largest number with 801 last year, more than 500 of which were for plagiarism.

Loughborough University reported 151 incidents last year of which 43 were committed by postgraduates while East London University said that among its 733 cases of cheating last year there were 612 of plagiarism.

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O Level Student Scores Record 23 A’s

PakBee — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:50:51 +0000

ISLAMABAD: A student in Islamabad, Ibrahim Shahid, set a new world record by scoring 23 As in Cambridge O level exams.

Shahid, a student of a private school in Islamabad, sat for 24 subjects and scored 23 As.

Attributing his success to his parents, Shahid recalled an incident where his teacher in Australia had written him off, stating that he would “never excel”. He added that every child is special and everyone has their own capabilities.

Earlier, Ali Moeen Nawazish, also a Pakistani student, had set a world record by securing 23 As in A level Cambridge exams.

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New World Record Cramming 19 into Smart Car

PakBee — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:36:33 +0000

KARACHI: A group of students from Karachi Grammar School and other schools made history when they set a new Guinness World of Records by accommodating 19 persons in a Smart Car.

This historic event took place at DHA Creek Club, Karachi in front of a Jury and reported worldwide Wednesday in the presence of Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khoro who was chief guest on the occasion.

The group led by Aymen Saleem Yousuf squeezed into a standard Smart Car to smash the record ealier set by the Climb Fit Team of Australia when 18 students compressed into a standard Smart Car at the Warringah Mall, Sydney Australia on January 25, 2010.

The jury comprised of Nisar Khoro, Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig Advisor to Prime Minister, Sharmila Farooqui Advisor to CM Sindh on Information, former cricket captain Waseem Akram, former hockey captain and olympian Islahuddin and Ishtiaq Baig Hon. Consul General of Morocco.

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and We Say that We Are Hardworking…

PakBee — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:10:57 +0000

Please dont be lazy to forward this from your Air conditioned cubicle sitting in a cozy wheel chair as you can see; some are not gifted with a comfortable life as you are…

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NED Students Make Fuel-Efficient Car

PakBee — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:38:45 +0000

WinMark is a group of 12 engineering students, who have made a car locally in Pakistan that can cover 80 Kilometers per liter.

WinMark is participating in Shell Eco-Marathon, the 25th global competition which will be held first time in Asia (Malaysia) in July 2010.

Earlier we have discussed PakWheelers, students from NUST and about their participation with hybrid car in Shell Eco Marathon for prototype category, here we come with another team of auto enthusiasts from NED University of Engineering & Technology.

WinMark team has showcased their car at Karachi which is complete and is ready to race in the marathon. They will be competing with world’s top notch cars in urban category.

For Urban category a car is supposed to have 4 tires along with all basic auto fundamentals unlike prototype cars, which can have even 3 tires or even 2 and least possible components to secure highest level of mileage per liter.

About Rs 1.4 million will be the estimated cost of the project, including car development cost (Rs 5 lac), travelling (Rs 4 lac), transportation (Rs 3.5 lac) and accommodation and miscellaneous (Rs 1.5 lac).

WinMark is yet to secure any sponsor as of now. But they are hopeful to get the sponsored funds by next month so they can fly to Malaysia in July 2010.

WinMark is eyeing award at Shell Eco-Marathon in various contests including best Marketing team and Best Design.

The team comprises on students of Electrical and Mechanical Departments of NED University. They are:

M Tabrez Siddiqui, M Shahab Siddiqui, Ahsun Jawed, M Waqar Ahmed, Osama Rehman, Saeed Ahmad (Team Advisor), Haris Rehman (Team Manager), M Bilal Sohail, Taha Rasul Sheikh, M Hassan Abbasi, M Ahsan, Talha Asad and Usman Mehmood.

This year the event is to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Sepang International Circuit. The expected audience is more than 6000 people and the event will be covered by media from over 20 countries.

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Basit Riaz Sheikh

PakBee — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:53:09 +0000

Basit Riaz Sheikh, a Pakistani Ph.D student in AVLSI Lab at Cornell University, the United States has won the best paper award at Global Scientific Conference-2010 held in Grenoble, France.

World’s fastest supercomputers are characterized by the number of floating-point operations they can perform in one second.

Basit Riaz Sheikh (son of former ADG FIA Ahmed Riaz Sheikh) presented the design and implementation of a first high-performance asynchronous floating-point unit.

Compared against the state-of-the-art designs including the commercially manufactured microprocessors in nanoscale technology, Basit’s fully implemented transistor-level design not only performed at 3.2 times higher speed but also consumed 6 times less energy.

He was awarded the best paper award for his ground-breaking research.

Basit is the first Pakistani to win such a prestigious award at a premier circuits and computer design conference.

He is advised by a renowned scientist, Professor Manohar who recently co-founded Achronix Semiconductor, a 100 million dollar giga-scale asynchronous chip design company.

via=’ProPakistani.PK’Basit Riaz Sheikh

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TechElite ’10

PakBee — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:27:31 +0000

One of the biggest benefits of Information Technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It allows people to be creative and productive. It permits them to learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. TechELITE, gives an opportunity to the future engineers to compete and demonstrate their proficiency and potential in their respective fields of IT.

TechELITE is hosted by CIS department of NED University of Engineering and Technology and it is getting substantial with the pace of time. Inaugurated in 2007 with only 20 universities and 270 students participating, the number of competing universities has increased to 30 and the students to 351, to endeavor in the race for excellence to reach the utmost pinnacle. With 4000-5000 spectators and an efficient and impartial jury the students are judged fairly on the basis of their potential and aptitude.

TechELITE provides the participants with a valuable experience which cultivates an increment in their talent as well as encourages creativity and builds innovation. In a world of augmentation of Information Technology TechELITE provides a platform for these emerging minds to share their innovative ideas with the professionals in a complaisant manner.

Competition Date: 29th-April-2010

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