CNews KARACHI: Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics, Karachi University said that only partial eclipse shall be seen in the north western part of Pakistan on August 1. The people of Peshawar shall have first glimpse of partial eclipse at around 16:18 Pakistan Summer Time and the partial eclipse shall be longest (2 hours) in Peshawar and its vicinity.The partial eclipse shall begin at 16:20 in Islamabad, 16:25 in Lahore and Quetta, 16:39 in Hyderabad and 16:40 in Karachi (all times according to summer time).The partial eclipse shall end in Karachi at 18:26. The magnitude of eclipse shall remain less than 50% with maximum in Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore.The total eclipse of the sun would be visible from a narrow corridor that traverses half the earth.The path of the Moon's Umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mangolia and China where it will end at sunset, says Pakistan Met. office on Saturday.The partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes northeastern North America and most of Europe and Asia including Pakistan.
CNews Karachi. July 05: A Pakistani Scientist in Britain has invented a new chemical for processing plastic (polythene) bags which has the quality of dissolution after its use in 105 days.A manufacturing unit for these plastic bags was being set up in Turkey while interest has been shown in the setting up of a big unit and manufacturing firm’s head quarter in Karachi which will be used to supply such dissolvable polythene bags to Asian countries. The Director of UK based firm Bio Plast Biodegradable Plastics GL Punn while leading a 15 member delegation called on EDO Municipal Services City Government Masood Alam. The Executive Director of Bio Plast Pakistan Muhammad Hanif Awan and M. Sultan Mehmood Awan was also present on this occasion. The Director of Bio Plast informed the EDO Municipal Services about the characteristics of new chemical. He said that the firm was going to set up its first plant in Turkey which will be operative in next two months. The delegation also praised the vi