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NEWSPAPER SURVEY DAWN

SUNDAY APRIL 12/2020 1- Several Localities In City’s District East Sealed To Stop Coronavirus Spread : The Sindh government on Saturday sealed 11 union committees (UCs) in Karachi’s district East to prevent the spread of coronavirus. 2- KU Soon To Have Covid-19 testing Capacity: The university of Karachi will soon have a laboratory ready to diagnose Covid - 19. 3- Three supermarkets fined Rs.100,000 each for overcharging customers: The district administration on Saturday fined three supermarkets in Latifabad Rs.100,000 for overcharging customers for essential commodities and food items. 4- Norwich sign three year deal with Sinani : Norwich City have agreed a deal to sign forward Danel Sinani from F91 Dudelange and the Luxembourg international signed a three year deal. 5- Pakistan keen to host ICC events in 2023-31 Cycle : Pakistan have offered to host global flagship tournaments after the International Cricket Council invited expression of interest from

The Health Of Nations

In the given podcast Martha Nussbaum pointed out the facts that the “Gross Domestic Product” is not a proper way to measure living standards around the world. Martha Nussbaum is a professor of law and philosophy at the university of Chicago but she has been also collaborating with an economist, a Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to find a better, proper and fairer way to measure living standards around the world. She was asked about that what she liked to call herself in which she replied a philosopher. Gross Domestic Product is the total market value which includes all the goods and other services produced by a country with in a year. According to Nussbaum Gross Domestic Product is an obtuse measure and she like to look at is what people are able to do and to be. She also write a book about development and is called “Creating Capabilities : The Human Development Approach” and argues about the things that the Gross Domestic Product fails to measure The problem with Gross Domestic Product is

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals : Tim Ferris

In the Ted talk presented to us by Tim Ferris who is an author , entrepreneur and podcaster, showed us his picture which was taken after the dance practice. He said he was happy but after a week and half later he planned to commit suicide. Ferris inherited bi-polar depression and seen a lot at his age. His life was saved by some lucky coincidence and that was the turning point. He then decided to experiment some methods to control his mood swings, self-paralysis and self-destruction which led him to stoicism. The word “Stoicism” means to endure the pain or hardship without expressing the feelings. Stoicism helped many to attain success in life and the founding fathers namely George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the students of stoic. To avoid self- paralysis and emotional free-fall, he created an exercise which he called “fear-setting” which led him to his biggest success and decisions of life. The exercise was of three pages, on first page you have to write “what if

Thank You For Being Late : Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman is an author of “Thank you for being late” , three times Pulitzer winner and award winning NYT columnist. He talks about the topic on which he wrote the book was an optimistic guide into the thriving age of acceleration. The title of the book was actually an incident happened with him when he went on a breakfast and the person came late due to traffic issue. It gave time to Thomas to pause and reflect the surrounding world and how fast it evolve. This event provoke him to write a book on the topic because the author believes that when people get free time, they pause their busy life and think, self-reflect, imagine and relax. Author said the book have two halves and its about today’s world that how it works with people and culture. According to Thomas Friedman the world is reshaping it can be good or bad, you need to understand the three largest forces and these are Moore’s law, Globalisation and Mother nature which are bio-diversity and climate change. These accelerat

How the supermarket helped America win the Cold War

The Cold War between America and Soviet Union (Russia) featured three races namely a space race, an arms race and a farms race. The Cold War take place after World War I and World War ll. The winner of the farms race was obviously America and it was a Pyrrhic victory. According to Shane Hamilton, an American Historian, the first supermarket was established in 1930 in United states. Supermarket is the industrial agriculture system that enables the affordability of mass produced foods. Supermarket is a well stocked and a one- stop shopping and service emporium because it contains all the good weather it is dairy, dry or meat products. The share of food rise up to 48% from 20% between 1946 to 1954 and by 1963, it risen up to 70% and that benefited America. The purpose of supermarket was to drive down the prices for urban consumers as in 1920 the U.S become a majority Urban nation. To complete the need and to manage the system The U.S Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 which

The Art Of Stress Free Productivity: David Allen

In this talk, David Allen the author of “The art of free-stress productivity” elucidate the technique of stressful productivity to stress-free productivity. According to the speaker in every persons life, comes a phase in which the productivity becomes low which impacts our life and everything becomes chaotic or unstable and this happens when we are not appropriately engaged with the problematic situations or due tasks or projects or any kind of health problem we face and in the end we all blame the situation on the lack of time . The crises leads us to overthinking or overreacting and the outcome of that is people tend to blame time for it. In his talk David Allen said that the appropriate engagement is the real key. If a person focuses on the current task without engaging his or her attention to other tasks, he or she can accomplish it feasibly. He suggested three core principles to manage the mess in your life and that are perspective, time-management and control. If you do not kee