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While The COVID-19 is ravaging the world there are some lessons for the future to be taken out from the response towards the pandemic. Coronavirus originated in the Huanan market of Wuhan, China and the SARS virus of 2003 also originated in a similar market the SARS outbreak eventually reached 71 countries and claimed nearly …

“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.”-Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva More than 820 million people in the world were still suffering from hunger according to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) report of 2019. These were the astonishing numbers before the Coronavirus pandemic. As borders …

Coronavirus or COVID-19 is a disease that originated in China. Today it has spread to nearly every corner of the planet. The most peculiar thing during this whole pandemic is the way in which different countries have responded to the situation. On one hand, countries such as South Korea and Hong Kong started their counter-attack …

In 2013 the Chinese government adopted a global development strategy called the “belt and road initiative”. This mega project has a targeted completion date of 2049. Under the project, the land “belt” will run from china through south and central Asia into Europe. The maritime “road” plans to connect coastal Chinese cities with Africa and …

South America is the largest producer of a drug called cocaine. Most of the countries in the region are losing their war against it. Most of the cocaine produced ends up in the United States. Entire regions of Latin America are controlled by drug cartels. These cartels bribe government officials to support the drug trade. …

“In the race for excellence, there is no finish line” – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (Ruler of Dubai) The fact that Dubai just nearly 50 years ago was a village lost in the deserts has made its success more amazing and peculiar. There was a time when Dubai had no source of business for …

“Knowledge is power. Information is librating. Education is the premise of      progress, in every society, in every family”  –  Kofi Annan Education is one of the most necessary requirements of the modern world but still, more than 781 million adults cannot read or write which is more than the entire population of North …

“A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future.” – Amela Koluder Refugees are not migrants! Refugees are people who flee their homeland because of persecution and to whom the denial of asylum could have deadly consequences. According to UNHCR as of January 2019, there are nearly 70.8 million refugees worldwide. In …