Prof. Tahir Mahmood Chaudhry, President and CEO Pakistan Institute of Entrepreneurship and CEO Falcon Engineering inaugurated, The student chapter of American Chemical Society at Quaid e Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology, Nawabshah.
Connecting with the event, the University organized a two-day event, themed, Sindh Chemical/Chemistry Festival 21, on 8 & 9 March 2022. Prof. Tahir emphasized the importance of STEM education, research in Basic Sciences, and its impact on society, Industry, and Governance. Dean Engineering, Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed, Presented the traditional Sindhi souvenir AJRAK to the chief guest Prof. Tahir Mahmood Chaudhry.
In the event students and faculty members from 10 different universities from across Sindh participated with their posters and projects and also, school pupils from 10 different schools attended the event and observed the science experiments.
The purpose of the event was to grow the interest of school pupils in science, particularly, chemistry and chemical engineering by live demonstrations of unique and fun chemistry experiments.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the event, the vice chancellor of Quaid e Awam University of Engineering Science & Technology, Prof. Dr. Saleem Raza Samoo viewed that the event was a healthy activity not only for school pupils but for our university students as well because it helps in polishing their skills and showcasing their talent. The vice chancellor appreciated the participants and winners and distribution awards to the winners of the poster and project competition. The vice chancellor further commented that he holds student cause closely and the university is making all efforts for the betterment of its students and in this direction, supports all co-curricular activities. — PR

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on CPEC Affairs Khalid Mansoor has said that most of the Chinese firms expressed their deep interest in investing in Pakistan during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent two-day historic visit to Beijing.
Khalid Mansoor said in a press conference that the second phase of CPEC involved multi-billion dollar investments in the country.
“PM Imran Khan held around 20 back-to-back meetings with representatives of around 500 companies to help bring investment into the country,” he said.
He said that 65% population of Pakistan was under 40 years of age and Pakistan had a skilled labour force.
The SAPM said the CPEC Authority provided the one-window facility to the Chinese investors adding that if their issues still remain unresolved, then PM house was there to address the issues.
He said that under Phase-2, Chinese companies would support in setting up Steel and Metal Recycling Plant in Gwadar within three years, which would produce metals worth $4.5 billion for exports besides creating 40000 jobs.
He said that Chinese companies would also help develop agriculture of the country on modern lines to enhance per acre yield and seed quality.
He said a Chinese company would invest in building LNG storage at Karachi port whereas a factory for value-added products would be set up on Lahore-Kasur road in the textile sector.
Mansoor said that another Chinese company Royal Guru was interested to invest $50 million in the auto sector of the country.
Chinese companies want to invest $200 million in making medical devices whereas an investment of $2 billion by the Chinese companies would be made for laying optical fibre.
He said both the countries China and Pakistan had agreed to move forward with the second phase of CPEC.
“During the Phase-I of CPEC, out of $53 billion investments of $25 billion were materialised whereas $28 billion were under consideration, he said, adding that “fresh steps were being taken for the rehabilitation of industries and industrial development in Pakistan.”
The SAPM informed journalists that ECC had approved refunds worth Rs100 billion to CPEC IPPs, out of which Rs50 billion had already been paid while the remaining Rs50 billion would be paid soon. – Courtesy APP

Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project worth Rs273.071 billion and referred it to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) for further consideration.
CDWP moot that was chaired by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr Jahanzeb was attended by the officials of Railways, representatives of the provincial government and other stakeholders.
As per briefing given by Secretary Railway to the committee, the 43-kilometer dual track for Urban Rail Mass Transit System would be constructed in three years on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis.
The objective of the project is to provide reliable, safe, and eco-friendly public transport to the metropolitan city of Karachi.
Secretary Railway said: the project is expected to serve a daily ridership of 4,57,000, projected to soar to one million a day by the end of the 33-years concession period.
“KCR will deploy the use of an electric train that will be operational round the week,” the secretary said. Under the plan, 30 stations would be constructed along the corridor covering the most densely populated areas of Karachi.
KCR commences from Karachi city station and moves along the mainline on Drigh Road Station, goes across Shahrah-e- Faisal, and enters into Gulistan-e-Johar, and Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
The alignment passes through the older residential areas of North Nazimabad, Nazimabad leading to the SITE area and further to the Port, and then reaches back to Karachi City Station.
The development of KCR as a modern urban mass transit system will greatly improve the existing public transport facilities in Karachi, fallen short to meet the incremental demand over the last few decades due to the non-availability of modern mass transit facilities and decline in the supply of large buses, while the city continues to expand. ERMD

In the traditional view, the energy of an electron circling a nuclear core is bigger for circles further from the core of a molecule. Nonetheless, quantum mechanical impacts power electrons to take on discrete situations in orbitals. The cycle is indistinguishable in structure to nuclear retention in which the energy of an ingested photon causes an indistinguishable yet inverse nuclear change: from the lower level to a higher energy level. In typical media at warm balance, assimilation surpasses animated discharge since there are a bigger number of electrons in the lower energy states than in the higher energy states. Nonetheless, when a populace reversal is available, the pace of stimulated emission surpasses that of retention, and a net optical enhancement can be accomplished. At the point when an electron is invigorated from a lower to a higher energy level, it is improbable for it to remain as such for eternity. An electron in an energized state might rot to a lower energy state which isn’t involved, as indicated by a specific time steady portraying that progress. At the point when such an electron rots without outside impact, discharging a photon, that is designated unconstrained emanation or spontaneous emission. The outstanding quality of stimulated emission contrasted with ordinary light sources (which rely upon unconstrained outflow) is that the transmitted photons have a similar recurrence, stage, polarization, and heading of spread as the occurrence photons. A photon with the right frequency to be consumed by a progress can likewise make an electron drop from the higher to the lower level, producing another photon. The radiated photon precisely matches the first photon in frequency, stage, and bearing. This cycle is called stimulated emission. In many lasers, lasing starts with unconstrained discharge into the lasing mode. This underlying light is then enhanced by invigorated discharge in the increase medium. Invigorated discharge delivers strike that matches the information signal in bearing, frequency, and polarization, while the period of radiated light is 90 degrees in lead of the animating light. This, joined with the separating impact of the optical resonator gives laser light its trademark intelligence, and may give it uniform polarization and monochromaticity, contingent upon the resonator’s plan. The system of delivering radiation in a laser depends on invigorated outflow, where energy is removed from a change in a particle or atom. This is a quantum peculiarity that was anticipated by Albert Einstein, who determined the connection between the A coefficient depicting unconstrained emanation and the B coefficient which applies to retention and stimulated emission. For lasing media with very high increase, supposed super luminescence, it is workable for light to be adequately intensified in a solitary pass through the addition medium without requiring a resonator. Albeit frequently alluded to as a laser , the light result from such a gadget comes up short on spatial and transient intelligence attainable with lasers. Such a gadget can’t be portrayed as an oscillator yet rather is a high increase optical speaker which enhances its own spontaneous emission. A similar system portrays alleged astrophysical masers/lasers. In many lasers, lasing starts with unconstrained discharge into the lasing mode. This underlying light is then enhanced by stimulated emission in the increase medium. Stimulated emission delivers strike that matches the information signal in heading, frequency, and polarization, while the period of discharged light is 90 degrees in lead of the animating light. Spontaneous emission is a quantum-mechanical impact and a direct actual sign of the Heisenberg uncertainty rule. The discharged photon has arbitrary heading, yet its frequency matches the ingestion frequency of the change. This is the component of fluorescence and warm discharge. The freed energy moves to the electromagnetic field, making another photon with a recurrence, polarization, and bearing of movement that are on the whole indistinguishable from the photons of the occurrence wave. This is as opposed to spontaneous emission, which happens at a trademark rate for every one of the iotas/oscillators in the upper energy state paying little heed to the outer electromagnetic field. n

Mr. Zeeshan Ahmed, Chairman Pakistan HVACR Society, Karachi chapter and his team members signed a Memorandum of Collaboration (MOC) with Memon Industrial & Technical Institute to establish the Student Branch and enhance the quality of Training & Skill Development for the Students.