I never trusted BBC and it’s my experience that like Urdu proverb it’s a big Restaurant with substandard food. Today a news story was published in BBC Urdu, the story is about succession of Baitullah Mahsud and Hakeem ullah as a new TTP chief, the reporter is Delawer Khan Wazir The story […]
Breaking the Wall of Silence: Civilian Oversight of Police in Oakland
[This investigation has an accompanying radio story produced by Andrew and published at Making Contact. You can listen to it here. You can also check Andrew’s earlier reporting on this topic in partnership with KALW and the East Bay Express] It’s midnight. A vehicle driven by a black male is pulled over by a […]
The Emerald Triangle – Running Down The Mountain
In 1958, Jack Kerouac’s book Dharma Bums was first published. It is a semi-fictionalized account of his introduction to mountaineering and Buddhism. Throughout the book, Kerouac grapples with the duality of his "city life" soaked in jazz, partying and emulating Tibetan Buddhist tantric Yab-Yum rituals with the contrasting "simply life" of the outdoors with its […]
Liberhan Report- Bharat Jago Re
It’s high time to chalk out the future course of action based on the Liberhan Commission Report. The need of the hour is to formulate and mobilize public opinion, form pressure group and lobby for speedy implementation of punishing those found guilty in the report. Those found guilty be given exemplary punishment, so that such […]
Providing an alternative for Mutual Funds in Bangladesh
Today Securities and Exchange Commission provided Trustee license to Bangladesh General Insurance Company (BGIC) and Custodian license to Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). Previously ICB (Investment Corporation of Bangladesh), had a monopoly in both the businesses and has been a source of bottleneck for Mutual Fund issuance in Bangladesh. AIMS the first mutual fund asset […]
United Nation calls for Asia trade push
The UN Economic and Social Commissions for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) , which is monitoring the spending of fiscal stimulus packages in the region, is calling for intra-regional trade to be expanded. Goverments and multilateral institutions such as ADB are dishing out hundreds of billions of dollars, as they to restore economic growth in […]
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