AFP: Two women accused of assassinating the half-brother of North Korea’s leader in a brazen hit that shocked the world face a key court ruling Thursday, with their families hopeful they will be acquitted and return home. After months hearing the prosecution’s case about the Cold War-style killing at Kuala Lumpur airport, a judge will…
M Ziauddin/ The Express Tribune It is time to ask what is the future of ethical journalism in an age when it appears that the public around the world is falling out with facts, humanity and accountable truth-telling.Ethics in the News, a report compiled by the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), has thrown some light on…
Ryan Jenkins, Assistant professor of Philosophy and a senior fellow at California Polytechnic State University/Gulf News When it comes to AI and weapons, there needs to be a set of ethical guidelines and policy that are sensitive to various ambiguities Silicon Valley continues to wrestle with the moral implications of its inventions — often blindsided…
Peter Apps, Reuters global affairs columnist/Reuters Twelve years ago this week, I woke up in a wrecked vehicle on a front line road in eastern Sri Lanka. My neck was broken, I was paralyzed from the shoulders down and it took a matter of seconds to conclude my life was probably over. Now that –…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The World Bank said the move, coinciding with a UN climate summit meeting of some 200 nations in Poland, represented a “significantly ramped up ambition” to tackle climate change, “sending an important signal to the wider global community to do the same”, reports Daily Maverick. Developed countries are committed to lifting…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra MPs will start the game of looting & plundering if they are appointed for managing the dam renovation projects. Thus, MPs should be kept away from the Flood Rehabilitation Projects, suggested Water Expert Prof. Dr. Ainun Nishat. At the ‘Flood 2017: Situation & Solution’ seminar event. It…
Desk Report: Vehicles were seen moving slowly on Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways on Friday following rush of home-bound people ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, creating suffering to people, reports the daily sun. According to highway police, the number of passenger vehicles and good-laden started to increase from early morning which created the traffic jam. A 15-km tailback…
Sumaiya Kabir Bangladesh is no stranger to natural disasters. Floods, tornados, landslides, droughts are occurrences we have accepted and battle each and every year in a routinely manner. However, earthquakes, although frequently predicted, never come in a timely manner, which in turn make them more terrifying. This time around, the prediction has strong data to…
NTV A class II student from Ambur has approached the police with a complaint against her father for failing to fulfil his promise of constructing a toilet in their house. Accompanied by her mother, seven-year-old E Hanifa Zaara stepped into the All Women Police Station on Monday to lodge a complaint with sub-inspector Valarmathi seeking…
Tech Explorist: Being shown science subjects outside builds understudy inspiration. An investigation by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Mainz in this manner recommend offering more open-air guideline at the lower auxiliary level. “There is as yet a calculated hole between showing science and natural training,” says Dr. Ulrich Dettweiler, Associate…