First ever Pakistan Research Day 2020″ by the Web of Science, a Clarivate Group Company, was held at National University of Sciences and Technology. The occasion was graced by Mr. Shafqat Mahmood, Minister of Federal Education & Professional Training, members of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), and attended by over 300 attendees from the Pakistani…
The entire world is within the grip of an unprecedented pandemic– SARS COV2 (Novel Coronavirus) – and scientists and researchers are sparing no effort to establish diagnostics, treatments, immunity boosters and vaccines to fight off this deadly virus. The virology and immunology experts at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied…
A seminar on Generation Equality, the 5th goal of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, was held at the National University of Sciences and Technology. The seminar’s focus was on the year 2020 being the year of gender equality, the year of enabling women to influence the decisions about their future, and how empowering women can…
There is a need to provisionally suspend the traditional periodization of history as ancient, medieval, and modern and instead take the 11th century CE as the point of departure for the modern global rise and dominance of the West. Doing this allows us to see first that the 11th century marked a reversal of almost…
Herman Daly, the renowned ecological economist, in his book, The Steady-State Economics (1977), exposes the fallacy inherent in the concept of unlimited growth which is based on the refusal or failure to realize that the environment, which encloses all socioeconomic activity since the latter takes place within the confines of the former, is a limited…
Every now and then a story about someone’s attempt to take his/her own life reported through electronic, print or social media clenches our heart with deep remorse and sadness. Often the stories give an account of the harsh attitude of a teacher, bad grades and conflicts with parents or friends as the trigger of self-injurious…
