WION News: The number of Pakistani journalists being killed due to matters related to their profession is not an apt reflection of the violence against journalists and the state of their security in the country. Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that as many as 15 scribes were killed in 2010 and…
Oleg Vishnepolsky/ Linked In I was not qualified for my fist management job.I acted as such, and my team was not happy.I was too cautious to avoid mistakes and screw ups, and held my team back.My new boss called me into his office, and asked to close the door.He said – Oleg, I want you…
Reuters: Britain’s former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has said he supports Prime Minister Theresa May and his opposition was not to her but to her proposals for exiting the European Union, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday. Following a week in which reports surfaced of a plot by Johnson’s fellow eurosceptic…
Khaled A Beydoun/Aljazeera The world’s next major human disaster is in the making in China. This time, we should act before it’s too late. Rwanda. East Timor. Myanmar. The world has a cruel habit of ignoring humanitarian disasters until it’s too late. Old habits die hard, and the people targeted by state-led ethnic cleansing programs…
NY times: Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years. “We…
BSS: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to formally inaugurate the second Teesta Road Bridge constructed on the Teesta at the juncture of Rangpur and Lalmonirhat through a videoconferencing from Ganabhaban yesterday. A wave of cheerfulness caught the people in adjoining six upazilas of Rangpur and Lalmonirhat districts giving a festive look before the videoconferencing…
Khaleej Times: Three women were killed Saturday in a landslide set off by Super Typhoon Mangkhut, Philippine police said, the first reported deaths in the massive storm. Officers in the city of Baguio recovered the women’s bodies from the soil and rubble after a hillside collapsed from the typhoon’s heavy rains, said police Superintendent Pilita…
Abrar Hussain: The families of five youths who were picked up by alleged detectives in the Dhaka Airport area four days back have demanded their whereabouts and release. On the other hand, police have denied the claim. The identities of the five youths are, Shafiul Alam and his brother Monirul Alam, Abul Hayat, Safiullah, and…
BSS Ghorachora High School, located at Fulkucha village in Sirajganj, has around 1,500 students. Most of them are girls. Though the school is in a remote area, the authorities concerned are much aware about the health of the students, especially the girls. They are supplying sanitary napkins to their girls during their menstrual periods. Only…
Murtaza Mohammadi/UNICEF After a string of deadly attacks on Afghan schools, children and young people struggle to overcome trauma while continuing their education. After saying prayers for the fallen students, a small group of mourners descends a hill in the outskirts of Kabul, guided by the dim moonlight. One man remains behind to light candles…