On Social Media (Video)
Some WhatsApp Shares Curated by Irshad Salim – based in Karachi, to reflect on Social Media – as he sees it. “AI driven Algorithm, bots, etc. populating the cloudflare and
Pakistan’s Internal Revenue (FBR) Detects Rs1bn ($5m) Tax Fraud
NEWS OF INTEREST (NOI): Pakistan’s Directorate of Internal Audit-Inland Revenue of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has detected a case of tax fraud involving a revenue loss of more
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Bangladesh Economy: From High Growth to “Crisis at Both Ends”?
At 50 years, Bangladesh has entered an era of high growth, low inflation, rising income levels and falling poverty rate. Its forex reserve has also gone up and up in
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Music for Pleasure, Such As… (Video)
Without music life would be a mistake —NietzscheNo man is a hypocrite in his pleasures —Dr Johnson BERING STRAIT SERIES: Music started for me with whatever was blaring out of
Reflection On The US Economy. A 1970s-Style Energy Crisis Still Looms.
Turbulent times. Some financial experts are warning that the US economy could plunge into a recession in the next year, despite the current strength of the job market and robust
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Sumerian Cuneiform Script and Social Media Emojis
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES: Uruk is the oldest Sumerian city inhabited civilized city in the world 6000-4000 years BC (8000-6000 years ago). Agriculture, art and architecture flourished then, and the
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Challenging Times: Pakistan, China Hold High-level Military Interaction
A high-powered delegation of Pak military comprising senior officials from all three services – army, navy and air force – visited China from June 9 to 12 to step up
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‘Rivers in Bangladesh Have Vanished Due to the Effect of the Farakka Barrage’
Although flooding has become a routine annual affair in Bangladesh, more than half of its rivers have become unnavigable and many more have vanished, affecting the livelihood of millions in
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Saudi Stock Market Remain Stable. Price Index Unchanged. All Other Indicators Were Down.
Ghiasuddin, Jeddah: Prices of Oil remain bullish. WTI price enhanced by 3.21% and Brent upped by 3.22% % as compared to prices last week. WTI and Brent were seen trading
Doodle Chaos: Imran Khan, NAB (Video)
In fall 2018, I likened Imran Khan tenure to this video clip by Doodle Chaos – I bumped into on the YouTube. In 2019, I wrote a post “Khan never
Madam in Blue, ‘Educated’ Boot Polisher and 2 Songs (Video)
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Scaling the World’s Largest Urban Vertical Farming Network
In a conversation with McKinsey, Infarm CEO and cofounder Erez Galonska shares his passion and vision to change the way people eat and reflects on his learnings from bringing the
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