Hong Kong protests that started in June last year witnessed violent clashes between police and protestors but the latter generously managed to get applause. The huge crowd of politically charged protesters in Hong Kong received widespread admiration and appreciation for the humanitarian action. Nearly two million people forming a black sea …
Read More »How Australia Emerged As A Success Story In Controlling The Spread Of COVID-19?
Australia has been highly successful in ‘flattening the Covid-19 curve’. The number of new COVID-19 cases in Australia each day is very low. Both Federal and state governments introduced strict social distancing rules; schools, pubs, churches, community centers, entertainment venues, and even some beaches were closed. The country with a …
Read More »Inflation In May 2020 Drops To Lowest In The Past 11 Months
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported a drop in the inflation rate for the fourth successive month. The inflation rate stood at 8.2% in May 2020 despite a seasonal spike in the prices of essential food items. PBS calculates the reading by monitoring prices of 356 commodities in 35 cities …
Read More »Democracy In Pakistan; Hopes And Hurdles
This Eid while everyone is trying to stay inside to avoid the new monster of the 21st century(COVID-19 infection), an elderly woman in the neighborhood tried to teach the children the exact meaning of democracy. She asked everyone in the house what to cook for dinner. Four of all six …
Read More »The Visuals From The Protests erupted in US Amid Extra-Judicious Killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
Moment of silence for #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/UDt9XthWK4 — Ricardo Lopez (@rljourno) May 29, 2020 Video shared on social media showing protesters stopping their march at one point, kneeling and raising a fist in a moment of silence. Hundreds of protesters marched in downtown Minneapolis demanding justice for police …
Read More »George Floyd’s Murder: Is Limitless Qualified Immunity A License To Kill Anyone?
George Floyd, an American, was handcuffed by a police officer in Minneapolis – the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The video of late Mr.Floyd that has been widely shared on media and sparked the violent protests does not show how exactly the confrontation between him and the …
Read More »Senior Police Officer Refuses To Register FIR For Actress Uzma Khan Case
The Barrister Hassan Niazi shares a video message in which he tells that police refuse to register the First Information Report of the assault against the actress Uzma Khan. “We are at phase6 defense police station Police is not registering the FIR despite so many video evidence. they have no …
Read More »What Sparks The Recent China-India Border Standoff?
While the world is fighting with the COVID-19 crisis, the two Asian giants once again went into a stand-off amid constructions in the disputed Himalayan region. A Himalayan border standoff between China and India was triggered by India’s construction of roads and airstrips in disputed Kashmir as the later competes …
Read More »COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are The Economic Impacts?
COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on world economies with a number of cases surpassed 5.3 million worldwide. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that coronavirus pandemic could cost the global economy between $5.8tn and $8.8tn. ADB report finds that the economic losses in Asia and the Pacific could range from $1.7 trillion …
Read More »What Are The Social Impacts Of COVID-19?
This is the very first time that the new generation of the 21st century is witnessing such unprecedented and testing times. At the time when the new version of an old enemy shook its heads in the Wuhan city of China, no one had, perhaps, imagined that it’s going to …
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