A huge number of women belonging from all socioeconomic backgrounds, along with men who identify themselves as feminists, took to the streets on women’s day and demanded the rights of women.

The injustice is prevalent across Pakistan highlighted by a lack of education, basic health rights, employment opportunities for women. And perhaps the most fundamental and important of all – a lack of security for all those women who are present in the Pakistani society.

The Aurat march in Pakistan brought a lot of attention to the whole topic. The media shared the impactful speeches which were made at the marches in major cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore. This included the sharing of the posters made by individuals themselves.

Many prominent celebrities were a part of the women’s day march and raised their voice. Each year the march causes a bustle in society and conversation regarding this topic is initiated too.

Changes must be made. However, improvement can only come for the women once every individual, regardless of their gender, realizes the importance of this conversation.

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In a candid conversation, during an appearance in The Late Late Show with James Corden, he got honest about the plans he has regarding his move and gave a couple of reasons.

Watch the James Corden inverview with Prince Harry below:

With such a bold statement, many controversial articles were written and a great amount of time on news channels was spent regarding this situation.

Prince Harry, to clarify the situation, followed on and made a couple of more statements to cool down and clarify the whole fiasco.

Prince Harry made it very clear that, although he plans to work as a regular citizen, leaving the royal status behind, he will ‘never walk away from his family’.

In his interview, he even said that ‘it was never walking away rather about stepping down’. He also added in the conversation that the British media served a very toxic role in his life.

While his father couldn’t walk away from such an environment, he made sure to keep him and his family safe from this and decided to make a leap of faith in this way.

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The presidential inauguration ceremony for Joe Biden took place on January 20, 2021. Simply put, it was a ceremony like no other before it. With celebrations never seen before, the event was studded with exquisite moments.

From former President Obama’s appearance to Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi, and Katy Perry performing, the entire world saw the greatness of the evening.

Headlines were made of Bernie’s mittens and the Americans said good riddance to Trump on the day he left his position as the President after a year of rolling crisis.

When it comes to national ceremonies, the day made it in history books. The effervescent joy and spirit of the evening left many speechless.

Kamala Harris and her husband attended the ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial whereas President Biden and the first lady witnessed the fireworks show from the Truman Balcony of the Whitehouse.

The theme of the evening was not concentrated around celebrating the win of Biden and Harris, rather it was to celebrate the unity of people who were to be given the credit of bringing such a day upon America.

Tributes were paid to the front-line workers who gave their all fighting the COViD pandemic. The iconic speeches of the President and Vice President made it clear that after years, finally, democracy had prevailed.

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This decision was made after the US announced a that it planned to import prescription drugs from Canada to ensure cheap drugs for Americans. Canada, however, is not the only country producing cheap drugs. In fact, prescription drug costs are higher than some nations but still more economical than in the US.

Canada’s suppliers are worried about the safety of Canadians and have already warned that the plan devised by President Trump would result in major shortages in their country.

Due to the COVID-19 virus, the requirement of the drugs and other medicines has been enhanced as per the reports of AFP agency. The health ministry of Canada released a statement proclaiming that 68 percent of the drugs sources stem from expatriates, and this balance should not be disrupted.

The statement further affirmed that the companies linked with prescription drugs will be asked to share information in case potential shortages result. This should be done within a day if a serious health issue prevails.

The US President, Donald Trump has, however, signed a legislative order allowing the import of affordable prescription drugs from Canada.

A month after the order was passed, the Canadian Prime Minister responded saying he will be glad to extend their supplies and export them to other nations. However, his top and foremost priority is to protect and safeguard the people of his own country, Canada.

Meanwhile in the US, the drug pharmacies and suppliers continue to face criticism from all over the country including insurance companies, patients, US politicians and President Trump himself.

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The automated flight, 27 hours long, began with a dramatic night launch from Kennedy Space Center. The SpaceX capsule carrying 4 NASA astronauts then docked with the International Space Station late on Monday night.

Watch the SpaceX video replay of Crew Mission 1 Docking with the ISS below:

The connection occurred when the capsule was 262 miles above the Earth. Kate Rubins, on making the first radio contact to the dragon’s commander, remarked how pleasant it was to hear a human voice.

This is the second time that SpaceX has launched an astronaut crew to the ISS. The first mission in October was a test mission with 2 crew onboard. This mission, Crew Mission 1, was the first official crew delivery to the ISS and marks the beginning of a new future for American astronauts traveling into orbit and beyond.

The next replacement crew for ISS is planned in April. Until then, the astronauts, a Japanese and 3 Americans, will be staying in the orbit lab.

This new crew is now united the three already onboard the ISS, including 2 Russians and an American. One of the members of this week’s Hopkins crew, Glover, is the only African-American who went for such a long journey.

The 4 members of the crew have named the capsule ‘Resilience’, owed to the fact that times are really hard for the entire world due to pandemic, and this mission can serve as hope. There was a video broadcast on Monday displaying the storehouse, screen controls and the gravity indicator while touring their capsule.

For the launch, guests were kept to minimum due to coronavirus. Even the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk didn’t join as he tweeted that he probably has an infection.

Instead, Elon Musk’s SpaceX was represented by Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX. While Elon Musk assured that he was quite involved, just a little remotely.

Dragon crew channeled the live streams showing views of New Zealand and the pacific almost 250 miles below when they were nearing the altitude to link-up. The SpaceX headquarters radioed saying that the view looks beautiful. 

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The WTTC- World travel and tourism council recently published the appalling stats regarding the probable loss of nearly 174 million tourism jobs by the end of 2020. This due to COVID-19 global pandemic and the resulting travel limitations imposed.

The possible efforts to curtail and restrict the virus have impacted catastrophically on the tourism sector. According to current and present-day economic data of WTTC, the travel restrictions worldwide would likely have a huge impact resulting in loss of 174 million jobs.

This shocking number is less than the previously stated estimates of 197 million jobs to be lost.

The tourism experts are of the belief that this improvement is the result of return of domestic travel in many areas. Some countries have also restored international travel and tourism.

The data states that the relaxation of domestic and international travel will drastically reduce the loss of jobs. 31 million jobs could be saved if the travel is brought back to normal domestically.  

Mexico is on the top of the list of the countries affected considering that 15.5 percent of its GDP is generated from travel and tourism.

The United States has already faced the loss of 18.6 million jobs.  $4.7 trillion from travel and tourism will not be contributed to the GDP, and will result in alarming 53 percent loss in 2020 as compared to 2019.

The devastating situation demanded a solution. Many other countries like New Zealand, Australia, UK, Lithuania and Estonia have all acted on the situation lifting the travel restrictions. They have reopened their borders for international travelers and tourists from some selected nations.

This large impact to the tourism sector can be saved by the WTTC recovery plan. The 100 Million Jobs Recovery Plan outlines the major, prime initiatives that will aid in strong and established international coordination for constructive operations and to the restoration of travel.

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