Tim Steel writes for DOT We learn, many of us, at school, first to cope with the bullies and the braggers, and then, if we have any empathy, to learn that these unpleasant behavioural characteristics are, invariably, those of the more deeply insecure. And so, we find, it is, also, with groups of people…even entire…
France24 UN nations voted 21 to 8, with 18 abstentions, in favour of a resolution that renewed the UN-backed investigation for a year. Last month, investigators detailed evidence of possible war crimes committed in Yemen by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels supported by Iran. In that report, the team of UN-mandated investigators…
Tanzim Taqrim The Soviet Union still exists in a corner of Moldova. It is impossible to get there by plane and can only be stayed for few hours. Transnistria is a region in Moldova with its own governments, constitution, army, currency and flag. A territory which considers it to be a country but which for…
Channelnewsasia: Polish police have detained at least 10 people since Tuesday over calls on social media for murder and acts of aggression made in the wake of the killing on a public stage of Gdansk’s mayor. Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, a critic of anti-immigrant policies, was stabbed on Sunday evening by a man who rushed the…
NDTV: After delivering more than 5,900 pounds of science and supplies, theSpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth. The spacecraft will depart the ISS, along with critical scientific research, at 12.37 pm Eastern Time and splash down in the Pacific Ocean at about 6.17 pm, NASA said in…
Asa Winstanley/ Middle East Monitor Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers. Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in Israeli School Books” is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some important realities about the Israeli state and Israeli society. As…
Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique speaks to DOT : Job security and facilities should be increased to attract more youth towards private jobs in the country. Job security is the major reason for which Bangladesh’s large youth population is leaning towards civil service and other government jobs. Chances are very slim to be sacked from…
Arafat Hasan: Detectives are set to submit a charge-sheet accusing six people in the case filed over the death of two college students in a road accident in the capital’s Airport Road which had triggered nationwide protests. “We have already completed investigation into the case regarding the death of two college students in a road…
NDTV: A tiny handmade doll made out of soiled and damaged fabric has become a symbol of survival and hope for a group of weavers, whose dreams and livelihood were washed away by the floods last month in Kerala. A month after the deluge had ravaged Chendamangalam, a traditional handloom village in Ernakulam district, the weavers…
Motherboard Computer graphics in video games and movies have gotten terrifyingly realistic and the methods of rendering them have become increasingly complex and labor intensive. Take it from the researchers at Disney, who in an effort to create the perfect digital teeth strapped some poor man to an upright gurney and outfitted him with some…