By Saquib Ahmed, Managing Director of SAP Pakistan
Digital and IT transformation is the only way forward. Before the on-going pandemic, technology adoption was the only way ahead and this will not change once the world emerges from this crisis.
Before the coronavirus emerged and turned the world on its head, there was still a percentage of the global population that was resistant to digital transformation. But when a third of the world was asked to stay home, educational institutions, companies, and even healthcare providers were just a few examples of those who were forced to adapt; with a significant number of people turning to digital solutions to help them carry on their work uninterrupted.
In Pakistan alone, company employees saw an upsurge in the use of meeting applications such as, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, which have allowed colleagues to stay seamlessly connected with one another and their clients.
Companies that already had the experience of allowing their staff to work f..
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OnePlus Founder Says People With Small Hands Are Evolutionary Failures
The OnePlus Founder and Product Head, Xuan Sun, made a bizarre tweet on Sunday that roughly translated to “small-handed people will fail to fertilize and only people with larger hands will survive”.
The original tweet has now been removed but it reportedly had a morbid thumbnail of an unconscious child being given CPR. There are now a few Weibo and Reddit threads that quote the original tweet that said that people with smaller hands cannot adapt to the changes in mobile phone sizes, and thus, will lose the ability to stay connected to the digital world. According to Xuan, these people will also fail as a species.
Here is the Google translation of the original tweet:
According to the theory of evolution has to reason as follows: small-handed humans, because they can not adapt to the current changes in the size of mobile screens, so that they have lost the ability to connect to the digital world, in daily life many unchanged can not maintain basic survival, in the breeding opportuniti..
China’s New COVID-19 Outbreak Shows That the Virus Might be Evolving
Chinese doctors are witnessing the Coronavirus manifest differently among new patients emerged in the northeast region against the original breakout in Wuhan in late December last year.
Doctors fear that the virus might be changing in different ways that could potentially impede the efforts being made to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Qiu Haibo, one of China’s top critical care doctors, new COVID-19 patients emerging in the northern provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin carry the Coronavirus infection for a longer period and take longer to test negative than usual.
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Furthermore, patients in this new cluster are taking longer than 2 weeks to develop symptoms of COVID-19 infection after getting exposed to the pathogen. This aberration in the usual incubation period of Coronavirus has proven to be a challenge for authorities to catch cases before they spread the virus ..
FBR Needs Rs. 374 Billion This Month to Meet its Revenue Target
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has been able to collect Rs. 227 billion during May 2020 as compared with Rs. 330 billion during May 2019, reflecting a decrease of Rs. 103 billion as the pandemic has slowed down economic activities all over the country.
During the first eleven months of July-May 2019-20, FBR was able to collect Rs. 3.534 trillion against the annual revised target of Rs. 3.908 trillion set for the entire fiscal year (2019-20), reflecting an amount of Rs. 374 billion to be collected in June 2020.
FBR now faces the huge task of collecting Rs. 374 billion in the last month for achieving a downward revised target of Rs. 3.908 trillion till June 30, 2020. Last year, the FBR had collected Rs. 518.357 billion during June 2019.
The revenue board had collected Rs. 242.460 billion in April 2020 against the revised target of Rs. 200 billion, reflecting an increase of Rs. 42.46 billion.
Taking into account FBR’s performance during the last three months, it will be an uphill ..
This Beautiful Wallpaper Can Brick Your Android Phone
Choosing your smartphone’s background is one of the most basic ways to customize your smartphone. Turns out, Android smartphones can be soft-bricked by merely using this scenic image as your wallpaper.
(Don’t worry! This is a screenshot. You are safe.) The issue came forward after Ice Universe, a famous tipster, warned people not to use the image. Although the image looks innocent with its serene view and is something that would make a nice wallpaper, it exceeds the bounds of the color profile Android can handle.
WARNING！！！
Never set this picture as wallpaper, especially for Samsung mobile phone users!
It will cause your phone to crash!
Don't try it!
If someone sends you this picture, please ignore it. pic.twitter.com/rVbozJdhkL
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) May 31, 2020
According to Android Authority, devices from Google, Samsung, OnePlus, Nokia, Xiaomi are affected, though not all models behave the same.
This video (courtesy: Android Authority) shows how a device malfunctio..
Pakistan & World Bank to Sign $188 Million Disaster Resilience, Ecosystem Restoration Agreement
The World Bank has agreed to join hands with Pakistan to support the latter’s disaster resilience and ecosystem restoration initiatives through more reliable and timely weather forecasting, improved disaster risk management services as well as help tackle growing environmental challenges.
“The World Bank has conveyed its willingness to the government of Pakistan for providing funding support for an ambitious five-year US $ 188 million ‘Pakistan Hydromet and Ecosystem Restoration Services (PHERS)’ project, which would conclude during the financial year 2024-25”, a focal person of the ministry of climate change, Muhammad Saleem said.
He said that an agreement-signing ceremony has been scheduled for Monday (today) in the climate change ministry, which will be led by the Prime Minister’s Advisor on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam and the World Bank’s Country Director for Pakistan Illango Patchamuthu.
Explaining the details of the project, Muhammad Saleem said the project comprises two c..
Bookme.pk And 1LINK Join Hands to Digitize Payments in Pakistan
Bookme Tickets Pvt Ltd (Bookme.pk) and 1LINK (Pvt) Limited (1LINK) have partnered for 1LINK – 1BILL aggregation services to simplify digital payments for Bookme.pk’s 4.5 Mln customers across Pakistan. This partnership aims to cater to the growing consumer demand for convenient and cost-effective digital payment options. This strategic partnership will further drive the digital payments landscape in Pakistan.
With this collaboration, Bookme.pk customers will be able to make real-time online payments for their bus, cinema, airlines, and events e-tickets through 1LINK member banks’ respective digital banking channels including mobile and internet banking channels. Once the customer’s payment is confirmed, the e-tickets will be issued instantly for further use.
“There is a seismic shift in consumer behavior towards efficient and secure digital payment platforms during COVID-19 across the country. Customers expect secure and frictionless online experiences and we are trying to build a cus..
AGP Ltd to Sell COVID-19 Treatment in Pakistan Soon: Report
AGP Ltd, a Pakistani pharmaceutical company is planning to sell a COVID-19 treatment drug named remdesivir within one to two months in the country, reported Bloomberg.
AGP’s Chief Executive Officer Nusrat Munshi told Bloomberg that they plan to seek permission from the country’s drug authority to import the medicine.
It has a similar arrangement for treating Hepatitis.
The global push to develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines is speeding up as governments look for ways to ease lockdowns safely and restart economies.
This development comes a few weeks after remdesivir’s original producer Gilead Sciences Inc., which originally developed the drug in 2010 to treat Ebola, signed agreements with four generic drug manufacturers in India, including Mylan’s unit in the country, and one in Pakistan to accelerate development and assist in meeting the expected demand.
Ferozsons Laboratories (FEROZ) through its subsidiary BF Biosciences had successfully concluded a non-exclusive license a..
Situation Report: 2,964 New Cases and 60 Deaths Reported in 24 Hours
Pakistan saw another deadly day as 2,964 new Coronavirus cases were reported in the country while 60 patients died of infection over the past 24 hours.
Of new cases, 1,184 cases were reported in Punjab, which had curiously scaled down its testing efforts and reverted to pre-Eid days. Sindh, however, is still 25% short on testing when compared to Pre-Eid week and it reported 885 new cases.
KP tested record 2,216 suspected patients yesterday and 487 tests came back positive. Islamabad registered another 171 new cases in a single day.
Deaths in the country declined to 60 from 88 a day earlier, as Punjab reported 22 while Sindh said 16 patients died in 24 hours.
KP reported 20 deaths. Islamabad and Balochistan reported one death each.
A NCOC meeting held on Saturday said that Pakistan is likely to see a peak on June 15th, and it’s likely that cases and deaths will plateau after June 15.
More in below table and graphs:
Confirmed Cases In 24 Hours Tests in 24 Hours Deaths Last 24 Hour..
Fuel Prices Reduced Significantly in Pakistan
The government has made significant reductions to the price of fuel in Pakistan.
According to a notification issued on Sunday, prices for June 2020 were reduced as follows:
Petrol by Rs. 7.06 per litre Kerosene by Rs 11.88 per litre Light diesel oil (LDO) by Rs 9.37 per litre However, the price of diesel has been increased by 0.05 rupees.
It is worth mentioning that the government approved Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) recommended reduction in prices.
After this new approval, the petrol price has come down from current Rs81.58/litre to Rs74.52/litre, Kerosene price has come down to Rs35.56/ litre from current Rs47.44/litre and the LDO price has been reduced to Rs38.14/litre from current Rs47.51 litre.
Diesel price has been increased by Rs0.05/litre to Rs80.15/liter.
The government is charging 17% general sales tax (GST) on all petroleum products.
Apart from it, the government is also collecting petroleum levy (PL) on these products, which is taken directly from consume..
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