The treatment of stomach worms typically involves the use of medications that can kill or expel the worms from the digestive tract. The specific treatment depends on the type of worm involved, as different species of worms require different medications. Some common medications used to treat stomach worms include: It is important to consult with a healthcare professional… Read More »
It’s a piece of cake. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. Why add fuel to the fire? Idioms are those phrases that mean more than the sum of their words. As our TED Translator volunteers translate TED Talks into 116 languages (and counting), they’re often challenged to translate English idioms into their language. Which made us wonder: what are their… Read More »
We use perfect aspect to look back from a specific time and talk about things up to that time or about things that are important at that time. We use the present perfect to look back from the present: I have always enjoyed working in Italy. [and I still do]She has left home, so she cannot answer the phone. We use the past perfect to look back from a… Read More »
This section presents the history of Pakistan from the partition of British India (1947) to the present. For a discussion of the earlier history of the region, see India. Background to partition The call for establishing an independent Islamic state on the Indian subcontinent can be traced to a 1930 speech by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, a poet-philosopher and, at the time,… Read More »
Noted poet Mir Taqi Mir had a daughter who was also a poet and used ‘Begam’ as her pen name. It is said that she died soon after her marriage. Mir plunged into deep mourning and said a couplet on this incident which is not even found in his kulliyat or any hand written books. ab aayaa dhiyaan… Read More »
Thanks to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Peshawar, 23-year-old Jabeen said she had been able to continue her master’s degree – keeping alive her dreams of becoming a botanist. “My parents had decided to stop my education … because they didn’t like me travelling in the dishevelled Mazda wagons,” Jabeen said, referring to the city’s privately… Read More »
There lived three brothers. They had a small firm and little cottage, in which they lived. The eldest brother, Tanyen, worked hard in the firm while his lazy and selfish brothers, Zhoshu and Penhun, ate and slept all day. It was difficult to meet the needs of the family with the meager income that Tanyen said to his… Read More »
The industrial revolution, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, saw a mass migration from small villages and towns to cities. Previously, most people had lived in rural locations and would be buried in the local church’s graveyard. But with a growing urban population, the authorities in Victorian Britain built large cemeteries, often on the outskirts of cities. Those… Read More »
Often people use the words home and house interchangeably assuming they mean the same thing. These are actually similar words. In fact they can mean the same entity, but in different contexts. When you point out to a building and say it is your house, you mean the physical building; whereas when you say it is your home,… Read More »
Giving children gifts during religious festivals is a tradition followed by families across the globe. For Muslims, those presents often take the form of eidiyah, spending money distributed to children on celebrations such as Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha. The social tradition dates to the early Middle Ages, when the Fatimid caliphs distributed money, sweets or… Read More »