The Hindustan Times: Kumar Sanu said he adopted daughter Shannon but was afraid to reveal this to the world. Singer Kumar Sanu says he never wanted to disclose that he adopted a girl child in 2001. He is proud of his daughter Shannon, now a teenager and also a singer. The Dheere Dheere Se singer…
The Hindustan Times: As we find ourselves in the midst of the fourth wave of feminism, here’s hoping that bringing pockets to everyday women’s clothing will become a glorious moment of victory for this movement. It’s ridiculous, really. Here we are, 18 years after the turn of the century, talking about the viability of terraforming…
Hindustan Times: Social media is changing people’s perceptions of beauty worldwide. Apps like Snapchat and Instagram are taking a toll on self-esteem and triggering body dysmorphic disorder, says a new study. With advancements in photo-editing technology through applications like Snapchat and Instagram, the level of physical ‘perfection’ is the obsession of social media. People’s perceptions…
Reuters: Creators of fake accounts and news pages on Facebook (FB.O) are learning from their past mistakes and making themselves harder to track and identify, posing new challenges in preventing the platform from being used for political misinformation, cyber security experts say. This was apparent as Facebook tried to determine who created pages it said…
Vince Beiser, Award-winning journalist and author based in Los Angeles/Gulf News In the 21st century, as geopolitical power goes beyond who controls a territory, possibility of a dangerous US-China confrontation has intensified One of the most dangerous confrontations between the United States and China is heating up. Warships are being deployed, bombers are taking wing…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/Reuters The various movements gathered under the name of Europe’s “far right” have not risen like a straight line on a graph. There have been – still are – lows as well as highs. Yet there is a new sense…
Khalil-Al-Anani/Middle East Monitor US President Donald Trump tweets threats against Iran and the Gulf capitals dance with joy at his scowling and anger. The man then tones down his language and manner and calls for dialogue with Tehran, and the same capitals become angry and enraged with the man they believed was working in their…
PK Balachandranis, BDnews24.com Special Correspondent in Colombo/BDnews24 Work on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam bordering Bangladesh is proceeding at a feverish pace regardless of its domestic and international consequences. The Assam and Central governments are smugly claiming that everything will be tickety-boo once a “clean” list of…
Heather Robinson/The New York Post Without brute commodity extraction, a capitalist market is needed to prop up the economy — something that the South American country has failed to do. “Pretty Woman: The Musical,” an adaptation of the 1990 blockbuster film with Julia Roberts about a gorgeous, young prostitute and a handsome, taciturn billionaire who…
Blessing-Miles Tendi, Associate professor of African Politics at Oxford University/The Guardian,UK Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been declared the winner of Zimbabwe’s presidential election. But his margin of victory – he garnered 50.8% of the votes – has led the main challenger, Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change…