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Body Shaming

Veena Malik calls Marvi Sirmed a ‘gainda’ in Khalilur Rehman’s defense

Among the majority that are out to defend the questionable language and remarks used by writer Khalilur Rehman Qamar on national television, former celebrity Veena Malik is also one. She started off by saying, “Jo log shor macha rahay hain ke Khalil Sahab ne aurat ki tazheek kardi, wo zara ghor se…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Singapore

Singapore to draw up coastal protection plans

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): As Singapore fortifies itself against rising tides that threaten to swallow it up, the nation's solutions and strategies will be based in science, with national water agency PUB taking the lead as the new national Coastal Protection Agency. Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Paris

France Confirms That Most Of Europe Hates Roman Polanski

If this year's Oscars ceremony was a little too subdued and lacking in tear gas for your liking, may we direct your attention to France's Cesar Awards where director Roman Polanski nabbed Best Director for his latest movie An Officer And A Spy. The win led to French actress Adele…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Alexander von Humboldt

Top 10 Crazy Ways People Get To Work

From San Diego to Singapore, we all want to get to work as quickly and conveniently as possible. For many of us, our commute constitutes of spending an hour underground with next to no personal space or stuck in traffic for what can seem like an eternity. This, unsurprisingly, is…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

NOAA

What could power an early-warning system for harmful radiation storms in Earth’s Van Allen belts? AI? Let’s see, say Los Alamos boffins

Code needed because 'we no longer have direct measurements about what’s happening in outer electron belt' Machine-learning algorithms may in future be able to warn scientists of harmful radiation storms days in advance of their formation in Earth’s Van Allen belts. Charged particles from the Sun get trapped in our…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Dalai Lama

This is the mindset change you need to make when networking

What’s the mindset change most people need when it comes to networking?If you ask Shep Gordon, the celebrity manager behind the likes of Alice Cooper, Emeril, Blondie, and many others, he says it’s not to think of it as networking at all. After all, for many of us, networking conjures…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Yellow Vests

A European Green Deal with justness for all?

A fund originally conceived to convince Poland to sign up to the EU’s 2050 climate target has now turned into one of the most contentious aspects of both the Green Deal and the long-term EU budget. During the course of last year, as EU leaders failed to get unanimous agreement…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Blockchain

India lifts ban on cryptocurrency trading

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned central bank’s two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country in what many said was a “historic” verdict. The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in April 2018 that barred banks and other financial institutions from facilitating “any service in…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Black Hole

New telescope observations shed new light on black hole ejections

A black hole, ejecting material at close to the speed of light, has been observed using e-MERLIN, the UK's radio telescope array based at Jodrell Bank Observatory. A research team based at Oxford University used e-MERLIN, as well as the VLA and MeerKAT telescopes based in the US and South…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Brexit

[Column] And what if Brexit becomes a success?

Last autumn the French magazine Le Point published an article with the ominous headline "Whenever the British Leave, There's Chaos."The article described how India and Pakistan, Cyprus, Palestine, and Ireland all experienced how Great Britain, the colonial power, could no longer cope with their problems or no longer wanted to…

bubmagMarch 4, 2020

Veena Malik calls Marvi Sirmed a ‘gainda’ in Khalilur Rehman’s defense

Singapore to draw up coastal protection plans

France Confirms That Most Of Europe Hates Roman Polanski

Top 10 Crazy Ways People Get To Work

What could power an early-warning system for harmful radiation storms in Earth’s Van Allen belts? AI? Let’s see, say Los Alamos boffins

This is the mindset change you need to make when networking

A European Green Deal with justness for all?

India lifts ban on cryptocurrency trading

New telescope observations shed new light on black hole ejections

[Column] And what if Brexit becomes a success?

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