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KARACHI: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has issued the notification of new tariff, under which, consumers will have to bare electricity burden by 70 per cent, forcing the people to pay bills twice of the previous rate. The new...

Google on Monday brought the popular Google Earth application to Apple's iPhone, allowing users to fly around the globe with just a touch of the screen. Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod Touch is available for free in 18...

India is celebrating the arrival of its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft at the Moon. The craft is now in an 11-hour polar ellipse that goes out to 7,502km from the Moon and comes as close as 504km. Further brakings will bring...

It was another proud moment for the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was shown the first pictures that were taken by Chandrayaan-1 through the Terrain Mapping Camera on Friday. The TMC was operated in October through a series of commands,...

The fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 was carried out on Wednesday which took the lunar spacecraft closer to the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation said. During this operation at 0738 hours, the spacecraft's 440 Newton liquid engine was fired...

Designers in UK have built first "walking house." It is the "ultimate property" which will allow owners an instant solution to beat the floods. Any problems in your neighborhood just shift the house into walk mode and you are safe....

In a bid to fight economic doom and gloom, scientists have claimed to created the world's most relaxing room to calm nerves and escape from the daily grind. The room features soft green lighting, artificial blue skies, the scent of...

Regular use of common painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen reduces the risk of breast cancer, according to an international study. The research, which looked at information from 2.7 million women, was published in the Journal of the National Cancer...

With Chandrayaan-1 well on its way to moon without any glitch, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has now initiated a dialogue with its Russian counterpart of work-sharing of Chandrayaan-2 which features a lander and a rover. "Conceptual studies are in...

The age of public collaboration over the Internet is still only in its infancy, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told AFP in an interview. The 42-year-old web guru, in an effort to show Wikipedia's impact thus far, referenced a recent trip...