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Bridges built after World War II are susceptible to temperature variations, making them more likely to fail because of climate change, two civil engineers have found. Drastic fluctuations in climate,
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“The Ibn Sina Alliance aims to lead with health diplomacy to work as a bridge among Muslim countries” DESPARDES News Monitor — Members of Turkish and Pakistani communities launched an
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Leadership Styles – Negotiation Strategies from Japanese Shunto; The Opposite of Autocratic Leadership Styles NAJMA HUSSAIN — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intervened in a dispute
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DESPARDES Report — Indian Navy(IN) is scaling back its modernization programs, as financials and economic slump bite the national budget. The report comes as foreign investors show concern on growing
“What the agency does not report, does not take place” INSIGHT — It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the
Terrorism and over sensationalized media coverage by private TV channels behind the rise in psycho-social toxicity in Pakistan DESPARDES Report: How and to what extent the fallout of terrorism affect
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DESPARDES — State-run public utility Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGCL) has failed to attract competent professionals who meet the criteria and standards for becoming its permanent managing director. SSGCL and
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Overarching such initiatives are Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement — after being elected — that “We want to ally with the US for peace, not war”, and Army Chief Gen.
DESPARDES — Karachi-based Ed-tech startup Dot & Line have successfully closed their seed round with an additional investment from London-based entrepreneur Zeeshah Shah. Founded in 2015 by two LSE (London
DESPARDES — Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Zarif, on Monday urged closer cooperation between the two neighbors. According to Iran’s state television, Zarif and
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“What is to be done with all this going on? Should we give up or should we fight back?“ DESPARDES — Adviser to PM Khan on Commerce, Textile, Industry &
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DESPARDES (UPDATED) — Kashmir has been experiencing increasing amounts of violence and turmoil since New Delhi stripped it of its autonomy in August, imposing new restrictions on its people and
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