Hi readers! Alex Viveros, on April 28, 2025, reported in News “Health & Medicine” that children in the cities who stopped adding fluoride to drinking water, experience more tooth decay than otherwise. Warn Loeppky: A pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary says, “tooth decay in children living in non-fluorinated areas has become more…
China: the unequivocal ruler of the internet world
Hi readers! Here is something new from the Tsunami of technology. On April 24th, 2025, Lisa Monica and Dhika Priambodo (an Indonesian mathematician) shocked the world by reporting “China launches world’s first 10G internet network”. For details, pl. visit https://www.idnfinancials.com/news/54021/china-launches-worlds-first-10g-internet-networkTop 10G is a term used by some internet provider and industry groups in the United States…
Indecisiveness and the “repercussions”
Hi readers! Sorry for being absent last week. Are you familiar with above mentioned verse of the famous poet Hafeez Jalandhari who also wrote our National Anthem in 1952? I cannot define “Indecisiveness” better than this verse which probably revealed or descend upon him after meeting some “indecisive” friend. I wish he could live today to…
Agriculture and how should it be? Part 3
Hi readers! This is the last episode of the ongoing series and is all about Desert Agriculture Deserts cover more than one-fifth of Earth’s land area, and they are found on every continent. The Thar Desert covers an area of 175,000 square kilometers and is the largest desert of Pakistan. The Cholistan desert, or Rohi, is…
Agriculture and how should it be? Part 2.
Hi readers! Hope you enjoyed part 1. Here is Part 2. As explained earlier, conventional agriculture has now stood obsolete and is being replaced with Industrial agriculture E-agriculture, M-agriculture ( discussed in part 1) but, what we desperately require is Producing more food, with less resources and in a more responsible way. To meet these…
Agriculture and how should it be?
Hi readers! This blog is being written to answer the question (hidden in the title) of one of my very respectable friends. Here is part 1. US President Eisenhower while addressing at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, on 25 September 1956 said, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand…
Agricultural policies in Pakistan
Hi readers! We have been hearing since ages that i) agriculture is the lifeline of Pakistan which relies heavily on her major crops and her principal natural resources like arable land and water nevertheless, we import wheat crop off and on. According to latest statistics of 23-24, Pakistan’s economy accounting for 24% of the gross…
Why is imparting skills to our youth important?
Hi readers! Do you know that Artificial Intelligence was founded on the assumption that human intelligence can be so precisely described which a machine can simulate? This “perceptions” forced people to consider AI: a danger to humanity because if implied un-administered, it would create mass unemployment. So, first a field was invented that can progress…
Why has democracy failed in many countries?
Hi readers! Pakistan is an ideological country but, according to her founding father, Pakistan is constitutionally a democratic (parliamentary) republic in which state power is vested in a system which is commonly known as democracy that prevent rules by autocrats, guarantee fundamental rights, allow for a relatively high level of political equality, rarely make war…
The future is now! Act quickly
Hi readers! Just read the following thought-provoking quotes about the future “The best way to predict your future is to create it,” “Never let the future disturb you. Deal only with the present moment.” “Future is not something we enter; it is something we create because the only way you can predict the future is…