Residents of a town north of Baghdad found 12 corpses with execution-style bullet wounds on Monday following fighting between rival Sunni insurgents that could eventually unravel a coalition which has seized much of northern and western Iraq. The incident points to an intensification of infighting between the Islamic State and […]
At least 170 people, mostly civilians, have already died as a result of Operation Protective Edge, which entered its sixth day on Sunday. Thousands have fled northern Ghaza after Israel warned residents to leave the area to avoid airstrikes. Israel dropped leaflets in the northern Ghaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, […]
Nawaz government is reportedly all set to include PPP and MQM into its cabinet by offering them four and three ministries respectively. Peoples party might also get a state ministry slot. PMLN government move is a desperate attempt to thwart Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s Azadi March on 14th of August, […]
A new study published in Learning and Memory found that simple repetition interferes with the ability to learn new information, especially when it is similar to a set of familiar facts. This may mean that memorizing facts about an issue through repetition could interfere with the ability to remember a more nuanced version of […]
The way most students study makes no sense. That’s the conclusion of Washington University in St. Louis psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel — who’ve spent a combined 80 years studying learning and memory, and recently encapsulated their findings with novelist Peter Brown in the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. […]
The latest character assassination campaign started against Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan by notorious son of former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry is not a simple case of personal enmity between Arsalan Iftikhar and PTI Chief as it may seem. There are bigger players involved in this conspiracy to put pressure on Imran […]
The death toll at Gaza reached more than 150 while Israeli Air Strike continues to hit the densely populated area. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains adamant and vows start a ground offensive in Gaza while brushing aside world pressure to stop air strikes on civilian population. Again failing to play its due […]
At least 77 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday, and militants kept up rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities in warfare showing no signs of ending soon. Eight Palestinian family members, including five children, were killed […]
Scientists claim to have found an ‘on-off’ switch in our brain that can bring people in and out of consciousness. Dr Mohamad Koubeissi and his team from George Washington University studied an epileptic patient and found that electrical impulses of a specific region sent her to ‘sleep’ on repeated occasions. […]
The dramatic and rapid advance by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have caught many by surprise but it was a long time in the making. The dramatic and rapid advance by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have caught many by surprise but […]
