Greedy world. A so-called sympathizer of Kashmir freedom pledged to redesign the kashmirwatch.com website. After getting the password he started blackmailing and demanded huge money. He has even suspended the website. Inconvenience caused to our readers is regretted. Till the website is restored readers can click at our blog,…

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Iqbal Tamimi, Tony Gosling and Martin Summers at BCfm Radio (Friday Drivetime)

 

BCfm Radio in UK Discusses Citizen Media’s Role in the Middle East Uprisings

By Iqbal Tamimi

Clearly the latest events of the uprisings in the Middle East and…

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An excerpt from my interview with PR guru Paul Holmes. The full version can be found here.

 

Paul Holmes: I think journalists are going to have to, to a certain extent, think more like PR people, journalism is becoming much more about individual brands,…

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Only to inform that related to events now on Arab street I have published two articles:

Days of Rage on the Arab street  and   … Continue

A post on my blog about how journalists could use Google's Public Data Explorer - now anybody can upload datasets and try out visualizations. Plus some background links and info about data journalism.

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Thoughts about Middle East situation.



In March 1955, a fifteen-year-old school girl, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with the Jim Crow laws. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks also was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott urged and planned by Nixon and led by King, soon followed. The boycott lasted for 385 days, and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed. King was arrested during this… Continue

Bulgaria made another step forward to Schengen, but only in terms of technical criteria. "The Working group on the Schengen acquis has approved the evaluation report regarding the Schengen Information System SIS / SIRENE, where it has been found that Bulgaria covers the necessary requirements. Also approved has been the report on the additional assessment of the Bulgarian-Turkish land border", the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

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Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has taken an initiative to telecast live of all matches of Cricket World Cup 2011 in big screens through projectors in 14 different places of the city, said an DCC official.



The places are: Dhupkhola playground, Basabo playground, Shiddeshwari playground, Abahani playground, Mohammadpur Town Hall, Mirpur section-14, Ansar camp, Uttara Friends Club field, Indira Road, City Club playground, Oriental Club field, Sayedabad bus terminal, Gabtali bus terminal… Continue

School raiders in Russia, Moscow, are "uniting" schools, harass the teachers of the "desired" school making them leave into the woods of unemployment. Example. A unique School # 27 is being pressed in its own nice building... having been forcibly merged with #354 and their low graded culture. The refined teachers of #27 can't resist new Moscow authorities and the rudeness of #354. Cultured teachers are the easiest targets in the country of the…

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The long wait of the cricket fans will be over as the World Cup Cricket, the biggest sporting extravaganza to be staged in Bangladesh, kicks off at Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday afternoon with a spectacular opening function.

The magnificent show will start at 5:50pm at the new-look BNS after a 55-minute pre-show that will begin at 4:55pm.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to declare the meet open.

The opening programme has been divided into five parts.…

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The major rivers and tributaries have been drying up abnormally ahead of the dry seasons now in northern Bangladesh due to the ad…

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The wife of the Ambassador of Royal Embassy of Thailand Mrs. Jiraporn Jitpatima has organized a mini fashion show at the residence of Thai Ambassador here in Islamabad. …

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Despite the warning signs, villagers in the territory outside of Nagorno Karabakh continue to risk life and limb. Photo © Onnik Krikorian for The Institute of War and Peace Reporting

Although originally from the United Kingdom and only based in Yerevan, Armenia, since…

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A pan-European experiment which sent nearly 80 young science journalists to laboratories over the past two years has come to an end, and the results and implications for European science and media were discussed at a conference in Brussels on Friday (28 January).

The conference – ‘Bridging the gap between science and journalism’ – brought together around 50 scientists, journalists, and European Union commissioners to discuss what happens when journalists and scientists are put…

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The Palestinian Papers (“PaliLeaks”) show that Israel indeed had real partner with whom to negotiate issues such as borders, land swaps, settlements, refugees, Jerusalem and even recognition Israel as Jewish state. Most recently, in the 2008 post-Annapolis negotiations, the Palestinians and Israelis almost finalized an agreement negotiated by the two sides. These are the issues I cover in my…

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