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Learning to Live with Fossil Fuels

We can’t address climate change without carbon reduction, but we also can’t afford to neglect a vital second option: carbon capture. Captured carbon needs to be stored, or converted into products, or even recycled into methanol and other fuels. Experience using carbon dioxide to recover oil shows that large volumes of the gas can be stored underground without significant leaks, …

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How To Crack CSS SCREENING TEST

Here is a brief analysis of the components of the test along with a pragmatic approach to realize your dream of getting through. PART- I : ENGLISH   (WEIGHTAGE = 20%) Vocabulary The candidate’s ability to handle the structure of English will be tested by framing items based upon grammatical categories. The test will comprise: Synonyms Antonyms Pairs of Words …

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Separation of Powers

Every modern state stands on four basic pillars also termed as organs of the state. These include Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Media. Media has been considered as one of the pillars in modern world as the role of media in the state affairs has gained much importance. In the developed countries of the world, wherein media has been structured on …

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Vocabulary in News

lacklustre: (adj.) dull, lifeless, dead, uninteresting   Cotton market continued to witness lacklustre trading on the second consecutive day. scatty: (adj.) disorderly, erratic, haphazard Salman sees himself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty. eccentric: (adj.) anomalous, capricious, idiosyncratic, singular As students, we have all experienced our fair share of eccentric teachers and professors. elude: (v) avoid, escape, dodge, evade, outwit …

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QUERIES of CSS, PMS, PCS Aspirants

Jahangir’s World Times is the only magazine that caters for the needs of the candidates of the prestigious competitive exams including CSS, PMS and PCS. Candidates often face difficulties in selection of subjects, choosing the right books, preparing for the interviews and so on. JWT’s CSS GURU is an initiative to provide the guidance candidates may need at any stage. …

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Global Warming

The carbon cycle is a natural and integral part of life on Earth. A single carbon atom stored in a blade of grass may shift to the body of an animal that eats the grass. What is the greenhouse effect? The greenhouse effect is one of the main factors determining the temperature of a planet. It’s the phenomenon by which …

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In Conversation with Muhammad Tayyab Tahir, 2nd Position, PMS-2012

Jahangir’s World Times: Please tell us about your educational background and achievements in detail. Muhammad Tayyab Tahir: Since I hail from Lahore, I got my education here. I earned my postgraduate degree in Sociology from University of the Punjab, securing 1st position among boys. Later, I was selected as a Social Welfare Officer in Government of the Punjab. During the …

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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit human beings for some type of labor or commercial sex purpose. Every year, millions of men, women, and children worldwide’ including in Pakistan’ become victims of human trafficking. Today remittances of Pakistani expatriates hover around US$ 13-14 billion which accounts for …

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‘Pakistan is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower: USA’

Exclusive Interview with Noam Chomsky on Pakistan Elections Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Noam Chomsky, is without doubt the most widely heard and read public intellectual alive today. Although trained in linguistics, he has written on and extensively critiqued a wide range of topics, including US foreign policy, mainstream media discourses and anarchist philosophy. Professor Chomsky, …

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