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WHO Report on the Origins of Covid 19 A look at the key takeaways 1. Markets are the most probable source of major transmission of the virus. The focus is back on markets that sell animals. Covid-19 made its global debut amid a cluster of cases linked to the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan in late December 2019. Researchers tested …

Wakhan Corridor CPEC+ for Pakistan Pakistan is an ideal country for the CARs to have strong trade and diplomatic ties with, owing to mutual interests, social linkages on the base of religion, topographical vicinity, customs, culture, and social and religious values to some extent. Absence of a common border with any Central Asian state was one of the principle obstacles …

Global Gender Gap Report 2021 The World Economic Forum, an international NGO based in Cologny, Geneva Canton, Switzerland, has released the 2021 edition of its Global Gender Gap Report. Now in its 15th year, the report benchmarks the evolution of gender-based gaps in four areas: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. It also examines …

The Power of Womenomics The idea of women as rivers of a nation’s economy can be understood by ‘Womenomics’ – a term coined by Kathy Matsui, a strategist at Goldman Sachs, and launched by former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2013 to stimulate his country’s economic growth and promote gender equality in the workforce. Womenomics is not just a …

Seven Piece of Land Asia Asia is the largest and most populous continent of the world. It covers an area of 29.5 percent of the land area and has about 60 percent of the world’s population. It has an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres and consists of 47 countries. The highest point in Asia is Mount Everest, Nepal, and the …

Catfishing What you need to know about this form of cyberbullying What is catfishing? Catfishing is the act of pretending to be someone else to deceive people or to entangle them into fake relationships and later exploit them. It refers to the practice of creating a false identity by setting up a fictitious profile. A catfish gets a hold of …

Faqir Chand Kohli Faqir Chand Kohli, who passed away on 26 November 2020, is known as the ‘Father of Indian IT Industry’. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan, FC Kohli was the founding chief executive of sector leader TCS. He pioneered the country’s ‘Technology Revolution’ which helped India build its USD 100 billion IT industry. FC Kohli was born in …

Economic Statecraft The concept of ‘economic statecraft’ is defined by Princeton’s Prof. David A. Baldwin as using economic means to meet foreign policy goals. China is, perhaps, the best example in this regard. China owes its historic rise to its economic statecraft. By owning and embracing the concept, China, today, is the world’s second largest economy and is projected to …

Conflict and Food Security If you don’t feed people, you feed conflict! On March 11, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) started an open debate on the impact of conflict on food security with the concept note inviting members to discuss the worsening food security environments, relevant obligations under international humanitarian law, and challenges in mobilizing resources for assistance. In …

7 Wealthy Mentalities of Successful People Everyone wants to be successful. Most want to be wealthy. So why don’t we ever end up getting there? Although most of us face detours to our big dreams, it’s typically not external factors keeping us from achieving our dreams. It’s internal barriers that stop us. If you want to build wealth and be …