Since picking up a wrench as one of the first female car mechanic in Pakistan, Uzma Nawaz has faced two common reactions: shock and surprise, and then a bit of respect. The 24-year- old spent years overcoming entrenched gender stereotypes financial hurdles en route to earning a mechanical engineering degree and netting a job in auto repair garage in Multan. "I took it up as a challenge against all odds and meagre financial resources of my family" Uzma said. "When they see me doing this type of work, they are really surprised. Hailing from the small, impoverished town of Dunyapur, in Punjab province, Uzma relied on scholarships and often skipped meals while pursuing her degree. No hardship could break my will and motivation, she said proudly.
The sacrifices cleared the way for steady work at Toyota dealership in Multan following graduation.
Hundreds of extra police in southern India were on high alert for scheduled opening to women of all ages of one of the country's most sacred Hindu temple. Thousands of people, many of them women, have marched in recent days against females being allowed to pray in the hilltop temple at Sharmala in southern state of Kerala. India's supreme court in September overturned a prohibition on women of menstruating age, between 16 and 50, entering the site dedicated to the deity Ayyappa. The centuries old ban reflected an old but still prevalent belief that menstruating women are impure, and the fact that Ayyappa was reputed to have been celibate. In recent days groups of chanting women in traditional sarees have stopped vehicles along the route and at Nilackal, the base camp below the site, preventing women from entering proceeding.Those stopped trying to make it to the site, where an annual pilgrimage later in the year attracts millions of devotees, including female journalists. The chief priest of the temple, warned earlier this week that widespread anger could easily escalate into violence if a few egotistical try to enter. The priest further said several "scientists" had concurred with the view that "positive energy" in a temple can be polluted by entry of menstruating women.
**-- The Lost Colony Of Roanoke:--
In 1587, John White led 115 people to establish a permanent English establishment on Roanke Island, located in present -day North Carolina. The colony existed for two years, but with tensions with the native populations- particularly the Powhatans living on Croatoan Island, -made life there grim and hostile and supplied dwindled. John White was forced to return to England to get reinforcements that might ease hostilities as well as supplied for the colony. Delays (namely English war with Spain) kept white away from Roanke for three years, and when he entually did return, he found that the entire colony- including his wife and daughter had completely disappeared.
Thatched-roof cottages were dismantled, not a single living soul from the original population was to be seen, and the only signs of life were sheddily constructed fort and words "Croatoan" and "Cro" carved on a post and tree, respectively. Conclusive proof as to what happened to the settlement remains elusive, and none of its members ever seen again.
A year after a car bomb killed Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Cruana Galizia, those who ordered the murder remain free while others continuing her work in the EU's smallest state are branded traiters. The windswept field where the mother of three's burnt car ended up 0n October 16, 2017 , has become a monument to her life. Supporters of free speech like Tania Attard come to this isolated spot to place flowers under a banner calling for justice, fluttering alongside a Maltese flag. After her death an international consortium of journalists launched a Daphne Project, coordinated by forbidden storied, a Paris-based organisation dedicated to continuing the work of imprisoned journalists.
After her death an international consortium of journalists launched the Daphne Project, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based organisation dedicated to continuing the work of killed or imprisoned journalists.
“They just thought they would eliminate her and then feel better but I don’t think that is the result at all, I think that it has backfired on them,” said Attard.
But while journalists abroad can continue her work, those in Malta calling for justice say they are branded traitors.
Caruana Galizia’s blog sought to expose scandals on the island of less than half-a-million people, from petrol smuggling to money laundering, offshore bank accounts to nepotism, implicating members of the government and organised crime.
It also launched highly personal attacks on Maltese politicians.
Journalist and blogger Manuel Delia says that he receives threats and insults in the street because of his work, including speaking to foreign journalists, just as Caruana Galizia did when she was alive.
“The more time passes the more we realise that democracy doesn’t really work well here, the rule of law does not prevail,” said Delia, who worked for years for the Nationalist party until it lost to Labour in 2013.
“Institutions are completely co-opted and possessed by the government, and the government is possessed by people who are motivated by their own power and personal profit.”
Supporters of Caruana Galizia hold a vigil on the 16th of every month, demanding justice. Meanwhile, officials regularly dispatch street cleaners to remove an impromptu memorial that keeps reappearing in Valletta’s historic centre.
Despite repeated requests to the office of Labour Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and to the government for official comment ahead of the anniversary, none was forthcoming.
An official from Muscat’s office briefly blocked an AFP journalist on Twitter for asking for comment, then invited questions via email which were never answered.
Three men who allegedly carried out the car bombing have been arrested and are facing trial, but whoever ordered the killing remains free.
The political opposition to the Labour government consists of the Nationalist party, which was headed by Simon Busuttil until June last year.
He says that Caruana Galizia’s corruption investigations and accusations crossed party lines, although she more regularly skewered members of the Labour party.
“You know her last words (on her blog) were ‘the situation is desperate’ and I feel that today the situation is even more desperate,” Busuttil told AFP at his offices in Valletta.
“Because the people who ordered her killing are still at large and because the corruption stories that she revealed have still not been resolved and those corruption stories involve people who are actually running the country.”
He says Brussels should ensure the rule of law is applied in the island, which joined the European Union in 2004.
The murdered journalist’s sister Corinne says that the current criminal investigation is limited in scope, and that there should be an independent enquiry.
“They are not investigating whether Daphne’s life could have been saved, they are not investigating whether there was a possibility of state complicity, they are not investigating the possibility of state neglect and they are certainly not investigating how to prevent future deaths,” she told AFP.
“One person was killed, nobody has been punished, nothing has changed. If it was dangerous for Daphne, think how much worse it is now.”
he new season of Karan Johar's chat show will have Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt as its first guests. It is no secret that while Deepika was in a relationship with Ranbir Kapoor at one point, Alia is his current girlfriend.
A teaser of the show shared by Karan on his Instagram account shows the trio talking about "the elephant in the room". When the filmmaker brings up their Ranbir connection, Deepika interjects with, "Don't try and make it awkward, because it was not."
That's not all! The grapevine has been abuzz that Deepika and Alia are both planning to tie the knot soon. In fact, rumours doing the rounds suggest that Deepika will get hitched to her longtime boyfriend Ranveer Singh next month.
When Karan asks the actresses who will get married first, they instantly point at each other. The filmmaker instantly tells Deepika, "You know that's a lie!" Alia also chimes in, "Lies. In a big way!"
Speculation is rife that Ranveer and Deepika will exchange garlands on November 20 in the presence of close friends and family. The wedding will take place at the picturesque Lake Como in Italy, away from the prying eyes of the media.
Indian cricketer turned politician Sidhu once again stirred more controversy by saying that going to Pakistan is better than South India owing to cultural similarities, , Sidhu, who was speaking at a literary festival in Kasol, said," if I go to Tamil Nadu, I do not understand the language. Not that I do not like the food, but I can not take it for long. That culture is totally different. But I travel to Pakistan there is no difficulty. The language is the same and everything there is just amazing.
“But if I travel to Pakistan there is no difficulty. The language is the same and everything there is just amazing,” he added.
Sidhu hugging Gen Bajwa demoralised soldiers: Indian defence minister
The Punjab tourism and culture minister was trying to highlight the cultural affinity the Indian state shares with Pakistan.
Notwithstanding, by drawing a comparison over the sensitive lingual divide issue, Sidhu, as a result, has perhaps compounded his troubles in the Indian media.
Less than two months ago, the former cricketer courted controversy by embracing Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on his visit to Pakistan for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s inauguration as the country’s premier.
Sidhu also clarified that his hug to Pakistan’s army chief in his own style.
“My Jhappi was no conspiracy, it was no Rafale deal … if somebody tells me that they are ready to open the Kartarpur corridor.”
A delegation from Saudi Arabia has arrived in Turkey as part of a joint investigation into the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khoshoggi A Saudi source also said a senior royal, Prince Khalid Al Faisal, visited Turkey for talks. Khoshoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on on Oct 2 to get documents for his forthcoming marriage. Saudi officials say he left shortly afterwards but Turkish officials and his fiancee, who was waiting outside, said he never came out. Saudi source denies journalist was killed in killed at consulate in Istanbul. Turkish sources have told Reuters, the initial assessment of the police was that Khoshoggi, an outspoken critics of Saudi government, was deliberately killed inside the Consulate. However, Saudi sources denied the allegation.
Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to get documents for his forthcoming marriage. Saudi officials say he left shortly afterwards but Turkish officials and his fiancee, who was waiting outside, said he never came out.
Saudi source denies journalist Khashoggi was killed at consulate in Istanbul
Turkish sources have told Reuters the initial assessment of the police was that Khashoggi, an outspoken critic of the Saudi government, was deliberately killed inside the consulate. Riyadh has dismissed the allegations as baseless.
On Thursday, Prince Khaled, the governor of Mecca, made a brief visit to Turkey in his capacity as special adviser to King Salman, a source with links to the prince’s family told Reuters, a move that would suggest the monarch was handling the issue as a priority.
A Saudi delegation arrived in Turkey on Friday as part of an agreement between Ankara and Riyadh to investigate the case, two Turkish sources said. They did not give details about who was included in the group.
Turkey, US press Riyadh to explain fate of missing journalist
“A delegation has arrived in Turkey as part of efforts to form a joint working group with Saudi Arabia,” one of the sources said.
Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency said the delegation would hold talks with Turkish officials over the weekend.
Erdogan has previously said that Turkey could not remain silent over Khashoggi’s disappearance and called on officials at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to prove he had left the building.
On Tuesday, Turkey’s foreign ministry also said the Saudi consulate in Istanbul would be searched as part of the investigation.
Nishant Agarwal, a 27-year-old senior system engineer working with the research and development wing of the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited was arrested from Nagpur for allegedly supplying sensitive information to Pakistan-based operatives.
As soon as the details of his arrest were made public, Agarwal was immediately designated as an ISI agent and ISI mole by the mainstream media. According to the probe so far, the investigators suspect that Agarwal was honey-trapped through ISI-managed Facebook accounts.
It is also alleged that he reportedly got a lucrative job offer through one of these contacts and was asked to submit his professional details through a link which installed malware into his system and may have been used to extract data through a programme called remote access Trojan (RAT).
The capital China's Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, has launched a compaign against halal products to stop fueling "extremism". The Communist Party leaders of Urumqi led to swear an oath to " fight a decisive battle against 'pan-halalization'. China has been subject to heavy criticism from right groups and foreign governments amid reports of punitive crackdown that has seen the dtention of as many as i million mostly Muslim ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Beijing has denied it is systematically violating the rights of Xinjiang’s Muslims, saying it is only cracking down on extremism and “splittism” in the region.
The official Global Times said on Wednesday that the “demand that things be halal which cannot really be halal” was fuelling hostility towards religion.
As part of the anti-halal campaign, Ilshat Osman, Urumqi’s ethnically Uighur head prosecutor, penned an essay entitled: “Friend, you do not need to find a halal restaurant specially for me”.
According to the WeChat post government employees should not have any diet problems and work canteens would be changed so that officials could try all kinds of cuisine.
Muslims in China’s Linxia region fear eradication of Islam
The Urumqi Communist Party leaders also said they would require government officials and party members to firmly believe in Marxism-Leninism, and not religion, and to speak standard Mandarin Chinese in public.
Chinese citizens are theoretically free to practice any religion, but they have been subject to increasing levels of surveillance as the government tries to bring religious worship under stricter state control.
The Communist Party in August issued a revised set of regulations governing its members behaviour, threatening punishments or expulsion for anyone who clung to religious beliefs.
In India ore than a dozen complaints complaints of sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct have been leveled online against prominent journalists, actors, movie directors comedians and other public figures.
Most recently, veteran Indian producer Vinta Nanda accused television bigwig Alok Nath, who is known for his ‘sanskaari‘ image on screen. After her claims of Nath brutalising her, not just once but twice, a woman crew member of Hum Saath Saath Hain shared her horrific experience of working with him.
In an interview with Mid-Day, the woman recounted her horrific experience during the last schedule of the film in Mumbai.
“We were shooting for a night scene and I had taken a change of costumes to him. Once I handed him the clothes, he started stripping in front of me. I was taken aback, and tried to make my way out of the room as soon as possible. When I tried to run out, he grabbed my hand and manhandled me. I remember yanking my hand out of his grip and rushing out of the room,” she alleged.
Even though she was “shell-shocked”, the woman did not complain about Alok’s inappropriate behaviour to Sooraj Barjatya, the director and producer of the 1998 family drama. “I was shell-shocked; I couldn’t muster the courage to speak up against him. He was extremely close to the Barjatyas, and Sooraj sir would have taken it badly,” she said.
The woman managed to get through the last schedule of the film somehow, but came out scarred for life. “I don’t actively do movies anymore. The course of my career changed [after this episode]. But Vinta’s post brought it all back,” she said.
Meanwhile, Sushant Singh, who is general secretary of the Cine & TV Artists Association (CINTAA), has assured Vinta that they will send a show cause notice to the veteran actor.
The writer hailed the move and said, “I am glad CINTAA is taking action against him. I salute Vinta’s courage; I wish I could show the same courage, but life has come way past it and I can’t put my family through this.”
The scammers first attempt is to download and verify the app using victim's phone number. By carrying out the attack at night, they bank on the user not checking their phone and take advantage of WhatsApp's six-digit verification code. After getting the code, scammers can log into the user's WhatsApp account. Scammers attempt to gain access to use's account by taking advantage of weekly secured voicemail inboxes, according to Naked Security, a blog run by British security company Sophos. The attacks became so prevalent that Israel's National Cyber Security Authority issued a nationwide warning. To start, attackers try to instal the WhatsApp on their own phone using la legimate user's phone number. WhatsApp attempts to verify the login attempt by sending a six-digit verification code via text message to the victim's telephone. Hackers may do this when the victim may not be checking their phone, such as nighttime. WhatsApp then gives users the option to send the six-digit code via a phone call with an automated message, Since the user is not checking their phone, the message ideally goes to their voicemail. The scammer then take advantage of a security flaw in many telecommunication networks, which provide customers with a generic phone number to call and retrieve their voicemails. For many voicemails, users only have to enter a four-digit PIN, which if they have not changed it, is typically an easy password such as 0000 or 1234 by default.
Experts recommend users turn on two-factor authentication on their account, which adds an extra layer of security, as well as make sure they have a strong PIN on their voicemail inbox.
When creating a new use a combination of numbers, symbols, uppercase and lowercase letters. Ensure that the password is at least eight characters long. Use abbreviated phrases for passwords. Change your password regularly. Log out of websites and devices after you have finished using them. Use derivative of your name, family member's name, pet's name, phone number, address or borthday. Write your password down, share it or let anyone else use your login details. Answer yes when asked
Do usecommonly used passwords like 123456, password, Qwerty.
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In a grim reminder of horrific Muzaffarpur sex scandal case where minor girls were sexually violated over several months, three dozens girls of a government residential school in Sapual district were beaten up by goons for opposing their sexual advances. The girls many in critical are udergoing treatment. The barbaric incident took place at the state-funded Kasturba Gandhi residential school in Trivenganjblock's Dararkha village in Sapual. More than 80 girls. mostly from the SC- ST community aged between 8 and 12 years, living at this school were being sexually harassed and subjected to lewd remarks for the last several weeks by the local boys. The boys wrote vulgar things on the walls of the school, girls complained to the school authorities but nothing was done against the boys. This is not the one case, but even foreigner visiting women are not safe in India.
Approximately two in every five women in the world who commit suicide are Indian. The United Kingdom's medical journal found that although the rate of female suicide in India has decreased- representing 36.6 per cent of global female suicide deaths- it has not fallen as fast as rest of the world. The report also assessed that the females who commit suicide in India are more likely to be married , in their mid 30s and from more developed states. It shows girls are in serious trouble in India. The specialists suggested the highly patriarchal culture in India, domestic violence and trend of early marriages as the root cause of suicide rate- which ate three times higher than what might be predicted for a country with similar geography and socio-economic indicators. Social norms in India are very regressive. In villages, a girl is called her father's daughter, then she is her husband's wife and when she has a son, she is her son's mother. In a research carried out by public health group, 62 % of surveyed women believed it was appropriate for their husbands to beat them. The disproportionately high suicide deaths in India are a public health crisis. About 25 per cent of male suicides around the world occures in India, roughly the same as in 1998. Adding to public health crisis, suicide becomes the leading cause of death for young people in India, Since suicide had been decriminalised, it is possible that the rate could be much higher than reported by families or doctors in fear of disgrace or to avoid police interference, the report said.
**- Tsar Bomba:-
In 1963, the Soviet Union set to test their crowning nuclear achievement, the Tsar Bomba. Clocking in at 25 feet long and 30 meteric tons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful bomb ever detonated in human history. The bomb itself was so big it did not fit on any of the existing aircraft. Finally, a military aircraft called the Tupolev was found, and was large enough to support the weight of giant bomb. The bomb had to be affixed to the Tupolev and dropped from a parachute, leaving the plane he chance to get away before the explosion.
When Tsar Bomba detonated, it created a fireball that was five miles wide and could be seen from 630 miles away. The resulting mushroom cloud was 40 miles high, spreading 63 miles from end to end. The energy released was equivalent the detonation of 57 million tons of TNT, ten times more more pwerful than all of the the ammunitions expended during World War II combined. The blast wave orbited the earth three times. The Soviet Union faced international outrage, the US, the UK and Sweden allcondemn the bomb. Shortly before the detonation, a small change had been made in Tsar Bomba, in an effort to tone down the damage it would inflict. Before the change bomb would have been twice as powerful
An 16-year- old girl has claimed that she gave birth by surprise while standing in her kitchen in In Northern Ireland. Milaois Murphy, a Dublin resident she gave no idea she was pregnant until her daughter ' slid out into her trousers'. The newborn weighed just one pound when she was born 26 weeks into the pregnancy, and she stopped breathing almost immediately. Murphy thought her pain was caused due to appendicitis and she had been gaining weight owing to it. But unknowingly her daughter was growing inside her womb. After three months in incentive care, her five-month-old is now healthy weighing 8 pound and lives at home with Murphy and her partner. Murphy had been up all night at home being sick, leading her mother to think she had the inflammation of her appendix. Moreover, she also experienced back pain leading up to the bizarre event. But then her water broke while she was standing in the kitchen and her mother realised that she was actually giving birth.
