Poet, short-story writer, journalist, artist and columnist Abeda Iqbal Azad passed away on April 20, 2012. Abeda was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was a graduate of medicine but toggled between multi lines of interest. She also translated many short stories written by Khalil Gibran, Krishan Chander, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore into Urdu. She also translated many famous poems of Tagore. April 20, 2013 mark her first death anniversary.

The squeeze play can be a fascinating affair and the most rewarding of all Bridge plays. Today's illustration is one such lesson in squeeze play.

Since its discovery in last quarter of 1800s the plastics has gone through various evolutionary phases, but nothing is more exciting and revolutionary than the oil embargo of 1973 imposed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab world countries. Counter steps by the western nations opened new avenues globally for industrial growth, but for the plastics industry it was a blessing in disguise.