ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to give a major relief to the university students in flood-affected areas including fee waivers and scholarships, Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain said Wednesday, 31 August. The decision comes following a meeting with the chairman Higher Education Commission and other officials of the ministry for devising a strategy to […]
Paranoia, generally considered a state of extreme distrustfulness, is actually an intense feeling of threat from other people. It is not just one entity, but a whole plethora of variable feelings. It has been estimated that about 10-15% of people in the general population normally suffer from paranoid thoughts. Usually, in the clinical setting, paranoid […]
The reminiscing scent of colonialism is far more deep-rooted in Pakistani society than most of us would like to believe, and one can see it in things that are very often overlooked like social attitude, cultural attitude, and the education system. More than half of Pakistan’s 195 million population is under the age of 25 […]
With the demise of Queen Anne in August 1714 and the attainment of the throne by George I, the Tories were a ruined party, and Swift’s vocation in England was at an end. He extracted to Ireland, where he was to pass most of the rest of his life. After a period of seclusion in his deanship, Swift slowly regained […]
Humans are a vessel to a myriad of emotions; happiness, sadness, regret, remorse, excitement, fear, and pity. The list goes on and on. Some emotions cannot even be described in words. They do not have names associated with them in the dictionary. The human heart can only feel them. Catharsis, on the other side of […]
BEIJING: Pakistani students who graduated from Chinese institutions are playing important role in technology transfer, said Dr. Abid Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), Adjunct Professor at Shenyang Normal University, China, and Research Fellow at Lanzhou University, China. “So far, 20,000 Pakistani students have graduated from China. And frankly, you […]
To be or not to be The characters in novels seem real. Their reality comes from the fact that the novel itself shows their flaws, misunderstandings and desires openly. Due to this, we feel like we can appreciate and empathize with the characters. Characters like Pip and Heathcliff are the most relatable in today’s society. […]
Masculinity According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, masculinity is defined as “the quality or nature of the male sex: the quality, state, or degree of being masculine or manly”. This term has popped up everywhere since the beginning of the 21st century. Whether in conversations, newspapers, advertisements, etc., it seems as if everyone is talking about it. […]
Origination Elizabethan drama is much more than the drama written in the reign of Elizabeth I, The Queen of England during the time period of 1558 to 1603. The English Renaissance Theatre is an umbrella-term used for Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline theatre. The sole reason it was referred to as “the Renaissance” was that the […]
There is no harm in practicing code-switching or pluralingualism. In my observation, bilinguals habitually switch codes out of default, especially with people who understand the same languages as they do and share a good rapport system between them. The most important reason why people are adamant about switching codes while conversing is to show solidarity […]
