Can passion make a nation rise Arifyou must stop reading fiction, and learn philosophy”, said my mother taking away Harold Robbin’s novel ‘The Carpetbaggers’ from my desk while handing me ‘The Republic’ which is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato about the order and character of a ‘just’ city-state. In a...

Karachi: As the Pakistani rupee continues getting battered and the foreign reserves decline with each passing day, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail left for Doha from the Karachi International Airport on Monday, hoping that the agreement with the international money-lender institution would be in the best interest of Pakistan. Read: Govt will have to take tough decisions: Miftah tells IMF While talking to the media before his flight, FM Miftah took a dig at the fiscal policies of the previous Imran-led government...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT). “Ingenuity is the latest in a long and storied tradition of NASA projects achieving a space exploration goal once thought impossible,” said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk....