Reading Time: 4 minutes One systemic problem that was already difficult to manage before the floods and is now amplified beyond the means available to fill the gap without urgent and massive help-healthcare. The monsoon season is enough for a spike in water-borne illnesses in the subcontinent, but the size…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The World Space Week is celebrated in many countries of the world by National Coordinators that are led by United Nations and the World Space Week Association (WSWA). The week is celebrated on the allotted dates through lectures, seminars, competitions, training, mentorships, and more.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The video gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. In the US alone, the video gaming sector is an approximately $200 billion industry and is expected to reach around $270 billion by 2025. In a recent study, it was found that out…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dengue fever, also known as “breakbone fever” is on the rise in Pakistan, and it does not seem like there will be any let-ups this time around. Spread by mosquitoes, the virus is rearing its head in the business capital of the country Karachi, and is…
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a major rise in the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) all over the world. It was ranked 27th in the list of causes of total number of worldwide deaths in 1990, but rose to 18th in 2010. It is unique among other chronic ailments, due…
Before passports became standardized in 1920 by the League of Nations, border restrictions were not so staunch globally. The first version of the passport was documentation that allowed an individual to pass through a gate or “porte” of a city. The documents allowed the holder a free of charge entry into the region. During World…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The informal sector of the Pakistani economy, largely invisible on the official plane, is responsible for 35% of the country’s GDP. According to the Labour Force Survey 2020-2021, 70% of non-agricultural employment is based in the informal sector, and 76.2% of it is in rural regions.…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The sad reality of service jobs being seen as lesser than for most of the middle-class alongside a lot of problems associated with finding remote-work, most Pakistanis are thus left to those two kinds of models of trying to get a higher education. Most Universities in Pakistan…
Reading Time: 4 minutes More than a decade ago, there was a similar spike in monsoon rains in the region which caused unprecedented amounts of flooding and loss of life and resources. It took years for the country to recover and a lot of the related damages are yet to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Around 90% of Pakistan’s enterprises are small-scale businesses, employing 80 % of non-agricultural human resources and contributing almost 40 % to the country’s GDP. According to SMEDA’s annual report, there were approximately two million SMEs in Pakistan in 2013, employing fifteen million people, excluding sole proprietors…