JPMorgan published a survey on Tuesday showing that one-third of investors deem cryptocurrency “rat poison.” JPMorgan conducted the survey on June 11 at its 24th Macro, Quantitative & Derivatives Conference. One out of three investors view crypto as “rat poison,” while 16 percent think it is a “temporary fad.”
Former cricketer Shoaib Akhtar will auction his own Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on Waqar Zaka’s TenUp Nation platform. TenUp’s Cricket NFT marketplace, a first-of-its-kind tokenized marketplace where cricket fans can browse and bid on all kinds of digitized cricket art. Additionally, Shoaib announced and explained on Twitter that he was partnering with TenUp Nation to launch his NFT.
A woman tried to withdraw $20 from an ATM in Florida, but was shocked to discover that her account had over $1 billion in it. Julia Yonkowski, of Largo, checked her account balance before making a small withdrawal and found a total of $999,985,855.94. She told the outlet that she wanted to return the massive amount of money.
At Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, a giant panda gave birth to twin cubs for the first time in four years. The gender of the baby has yet to be confirmed, so their name has not been announced. The zoo’s staff is working together to observe and protect the giant panda mother and her young.
Authorities in Israel have recently placed Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood, ‘under a siege’. Non-residents have been banned from entering the neighborhood for the past few weeks. Moreover, the Palestinians tend to stay at home since Israeli authorities allegedly prevent them from returning if they leave the area. Most Palestinians are losing their land to Israeli settlers.
The Pakistani market has introduced three new varieties of sugar-free mangoes containing four to six percent sugar for diabetic patients. Pakistan’s mango expert has developed three varieties of sugar-free mangoes at a private farming operation in Tando Allahyar, Sindh. Furthermore, the resultant mango varieties have been named Sonaro, Glenn, and Keitt, and are available in the local markets.
The 14-year-old Pakistani, Ali Zoyan, wrote a book about HTML5 and has become a certified author at Amazon. Ali Zoyan is a grade 8 student with an enormous interest in computers. During the lockdown, Ali discovered his passion for computers, which provided him with ample time to learn and practice.
In an effort to promote tourism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Tourism Department under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Tourism Development Project (KITE) has launched a new initiative called Waste-Free Tourism. Trek initiative was launched to reduce, reuse and recycle the trash material at tourist sites. Moreover, it devised plans to counter problems like waste, pollution, and the destruction of wildlife.
National Coordination Committee (NCC) allows the Hindus to celebrate their annual festival with strict adherence to the SOPs. Minister of Planning Asad Umar provided Hindu community members the opportunity to celebrate the annual event, Dada Parbriham, in Tharparkar. Moreover, the festival takes place from June 21st to 24th in Tharparkar’s Veri Jhap.
Mami Mizutori, the UN special representative for disaster risk reduction, said: “Drought could become the next pandemic, and there is no vaccine to prevent it”. Droughts affected over 1.5 billion people and have caused over $124 billion in economic losses. In addition, a warming world will increase the probability of droughts and scarcity of water, causing damage equivalent to the Covid-19 pandemic