Lahore Lahore Hai: These GRAPHICS Strengthen Case for Back to School on Air Quality
Nearly 6pct of GDP or $48 billion is the estimated economic burden of air pollution in the country. Other things being equal, the whopping figure strengthens the economic case for
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This is How Climate Change Will Shift the World’s Cities (Interactive Map)
How hot will summers be in your city by 2100? Summer highs in Lahore could be more like Doha, Qatar, and Karachi could be more like Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — by 2100 without
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India Focusing on Measures That are ‘Below Threshold of All-Out War’
DESPARDES — The Indian military establishment faces a ‘David vs Goliath’ like situation and a dilemma if its Army Chief’s latest talking points are to be read while sipping a
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Podcasts Are Soaring in Popularity, Start and Monetize It
IRSHAD SALIM (Solutions Are Us) — 90 million Americans listen to podcast every month with more people listening to podcasts worldwide than ever before — it has grown as a
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OPINION: Radical West and Radical Hindutva Much Bigger Threats Than “Radical Islam”, Mr. Trump!
DR. JAVED JAMIL — Not surprisingly, hosted by his “great friend” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Trump repeated his oft-repeated call against “Radical Islam”. Both Trump and his Indian
Thar Coal for Power Plants Via Rail On BOT Basis
SoDATA (South Data) — A 145-kilometer railtrack will be laid from Chhor to Islamkot to transport coal from Thar Coal field to Port Qasim in Karachi and upcountry. The rail
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Historian Harari Warns of Human Hacking, Digital Dictatorship, Nukes and Eco Disruption (Video)
DESPARDES — The world faces three existential challenges says the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens Professor Yuval Noah Harari. “Threat of nuclear war; the reality of ecological collapse; and the
‘India’s Great Slowdown’: Facing Twin Economic and Political Crises, Says FT
The growth slowdown has been dramatic, while politics takes an aggressively illiberal turn; the overestimate of growth between 2011 and 2016 averaged about 2.5 percentage points annually, which would lower
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Modi’s Gujarat Model Reaches Delhi: Mosque Set on Fire, Hanuman Flag Hoisted on Minaret
13 people including a policeman have been killed and at least 150 injured since violence erupted in Delhi clashes amid Trump’s visit, according to CNN. DESPARDES — A mosque was
Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War
BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI JUNE 23, 2017. The insightful article below remains relevant and conclusive in arguments put forth. Harari is the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus:
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The Graveyard Talks Back: Arundhati Roy
“Kashmir, the land of the living dead and the talking graves—city graveyards, village graveyards, mass graves, unmarked graves, double-decker graves. Kashmir, whose truth can only be told in fiction—because only