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Continue readingThis Week’s Best Political Cartoons on Climate Change, Inflation, Queen’s Death
Blast from the past (Sept. 2019): Some young ones visited me in Islamabad. They asked me few questions for my views on some matters. There were smiles from them on
Continue readingSep 2019: A Chat on Pakistan Affairs in Urdu (VIDEO)
Jamil Usman’s latest book “The Cloud” is an English novel for children. It’s a science fiction adventure for the age group 10 to 15 years. The story involves abduction of a
Continue readingDr. Lucas Inventor of The Cloud Ends Up in ‘Greeneria’: Novel By Jamil Usman
During the period covering last 10 years, following TEN major reasons of serious deterioration in a family’s financial condition have critically been noticed: –Everyone in family owns smartphone.-Vacations are taken
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Kathleen Frydl in The Conversation: The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country
Sean Trott in Psyche: Some words are much more frequent than others. For example, in a sample of almost 18 million words from published texts, the word can occurs about 70,000 times, while souse occurs only once. But can doesn’t
Continue readingAs Language Evolves, Who Wins Out: Speakers or Listeners?
Compensation for loss and damage caused by climate change has developed into a major, pressing challenge for COP27. Developing countries in particular are looking for rapid progress By Felix Dodds
Continue readingCLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT in Egypt: What Must COP27 Deliver?
“Decades of intransigence by big emitters”, particularly Group of 20 members behind climate crisis, according to UN chief Secretary General Antonio Guterres who recently visited Pakistan. In his latest tweet,
The problem with American politics isn’t polarization—it’s rising illiberalism. Stephanie Slade in the Reason: Something is broken in our politics. Just about everyone knows it, but it can be hard
Explaining difficult ideas in terms that are both straightforward and interesting GOOGLE READS: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, here
The art world has mobilized to stage “an unprecedented” 42 exhibitions marking 50 years since Pablo Picasso’s death, AFP reports. Prepared over the past 18 months by France and Spain,
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to Delhi on Tuesday –on a 4-day (September 5 to 8) visit and signed seven Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with India’s Prime Minister Narendra
Continue readingSheikh Hasina’s Delhi Visit, ‘With an Eye on General Elections’