PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE Oct 03: Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on autophagy. What is autophagy? Autophagy is a fundamental process in cell physiology dealing with how the body breaks down and recycles cellular components. It is a process whereby cells “eat themselves”. Autophagy can rapidly provide fuel for energy …

The Middle East, like many regions in the world, is, and will be, influenced with the results of the American presidential election. That’s why leaders of the Middle Eastern nations have been keenly observing the whole election process so that they could draw up the policies to deal with the new president. Although both major presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton …

The intent behind Narendra Modi’s unprecedented ‘love’ for Afghanistan is no more a secret now. With an overt mission to destabilize Pakistan, Modi has poured in huge sums of money as ‘investments in Afghanistan’s future’ and has vowed that his country will extend cooperation to every part of war-torn Afghanistan despite facing barriers of politics, geography and terror attacks on …

Americans elect a president every four years and quite interestingly every time, the campaign-finance experts predict that it’s going to be the most expensive election in country’s history. This year’s election is also no exception as it has already been estimated that the 2016 election is going to be the most expensive in history. As per estimates, these will cost …

The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) is now the law of the United States. After months of warnings from President Obama, legal and international affairs experts and foreign leaders, the US House of Representatives unanimously passed the bill on September 9. This act of the Congress began a game of legislative ping-pong between the President and the Congress …

After the great Western victory over the Soviet Union in 1991, many echoed Francis Fukuyama’s view that the future belonged to liberal democratic states. And, much like after the Western victories in two World Wars, there was a period of significant expansion of democratic regimes around the world after 1991. But, now, 25 years after the dissolution of the Soviet …

National  Oct 29: Senator Pervaiz Rashid was relieved of his responsibilities as the federal minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage. What happened? The government held the minister responsible for a “lapse” following the controversy of a report in Dawn. Mr Rashid has not been declared guilty of any wrongdoing yet. An inquiry committee including senior officers of Inter-Services Intelligence …

by: Dr Salman Shah In an open letter to the IMF carried by Business Recorder (October 24, 2016), Dr Ashfaque Hassan Khan, Dr Hafeez Pasha and this writer had reminded the IMF that the recently concluded EFF programme with Pakistan had not produced the victory that was being proclaimed by the government and the IMF through the media. We showed …

By: Zarina Patel With the invention of internet, the world transformed into a virtual global village. Today if you have an internet connection, you have at your fingertips endless opportunities, treasure of knowledge, up-to-date information, powerful social network, interactive multimedia etc. No doubt, internet has a prominent place in our lives. With the new technology on smart phones, and android, …

By: Dr. Ghulam Murtaza Khuhro What is Sci-tech-human power complex? And, how it is reshaping global society, economics, politics and everything around us? Are Sci-tech-human power complex and   STI (science, technology, and innovation) same? No, they are not. Sci-tech-human power complex is much more than STI in many respects. STI represents one aspect of Sci-tech-human power complex whereas its other …