Tag: #MIT
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IHC orders to remove EX-DG ISI’s name from ECL
Lahore, 4th March: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered the removal of former DG ISI Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL). Baaghi TV: According to reports, IHC has issued orders to remove the name of former DG ISI Lt Gen (R) Asad Durrani’s name from the ECL on…
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Pakistani-American Dr Nergis Mavalvala named dean of MIT
Pakistani-American Astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala has been named the new dean of MIT’s School of Science, effective September 1, 2020. Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, is renowned for her pioneering work in gravitational-wave detection, which she conducted as a leading member of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. She has received numerous…
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Harvard, MIT and John Hopkins University file a lawsuit against Trump
13th July: John Hopkins University in the USA has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s decision. The lawsuit was filed in order to make international students who intend to take classes online for the upcoming fall semester leave the country to return to theirs. John Hopkins University filed the lawsuit on…
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Second US city slams India’s citizenship law, calling it ‘racist and repressive’
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (APP):Days before President Donald Trump is due to visit India, another prominent US city — the second in a week — has denounced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalistic government’s “racist and repressive” policies and called for the withdrawal of the controversial discriminatory citizenship law that it sponsored. The City Council…