IN A FETAL AND NEWBORN GROWTH RESEARCH STUDY Coastweek – The University of Oxford has collaborated with the Aga Khan University,Nairobi to establish a centre in Africa for an international study of fetal and newborn growth. . This “Intergrowth – 21st” project will create a worldwide database of the growth and health pattern of babies before and a […]
The Nation: November 21, 2009 KARACHI – Regular physical activity is part and parcel of a child’s growth and development, and there are simple, low-cost ways to keep children active and fit at home, even indoors. This was stated by Dr Maqbool Qadir, Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), while speaking during a […]
The News – Monday, November 23, 2009 PESHAWAR: All cellular companies have been charging taxes on their services in the tax-free zone of Malakand Division, minting millions of rupees each month with the tacit approval of the government officials. Instead of putting an end to the alleged practice, the relevant department said it would encourage collecti […]
Press Trust of India / Mumbai November 19, 2009, Development Credit Bank (DCB) today said it has raised Rs 81 crore by private placement of shares with qualified buyers. After the QIP, the promoter group’s — Aga Khan Fund of Economic Development (AKFED) — holding in DCB has come down to 23.11 per cent from 26.22 per cent [...]
The News – Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) signed an agreement on Tuesday for the establishment of a new 132-KV shared grid station. At the signing ceremony of the joint venture, the KESC was represented by its CEO Tabish Gauhar while Firoz Rasul, President, Aga Khan [...]
The News – November 18, 2009 PESHAWAR: Admitting for full hearing a petition against the appointment of a junior cadre officer as district coordination officer (DCO), the Peshawar High Court (PHC) Tuesday directed the NWFP government to furnish reply in the case. A division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Mazhar […]
It was the first time the F.D.I.C. fund’s balance has been negative since the early 1990s, as the pace of bank failures accelerated in the third quarter.
An investigation appears to have confirmed what many New Yorkers secretly suspected: that the United Homeless Organization, supposedly a nonprofit organization, was actually an elaborate fraud.
VIENNA (AP) -- Six world powers have readied a resolution critical of Iran's nuclear program, diplomats said Tuesday, as Tehran pushed forward its own alternatives to a U.N.-backed plan aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons.
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