Posted By Zaheerul Hassan DHAKA, Bangladesh — According to New Yarks times report thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers staged angry protests on Monday, demanding justice after at least 112 people died over the weekend in a fire at a factory on the outskirts of Dhaka where labor advocates found the charred remains of clothing brands sold at global retailers like Walmart. In fact Bangldesh Prime minister ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan MUMBAI – The 14th Mumbai Film Festival ended here with an awards ceremony that honored such movies as U.S. film Beasts of the Southern Wild, Mexico's Here and There, Denmark's The Hunt and India's Miss Lovely. Mexican immigrant drama Aquí Y Alla (Here And There) won the award for the best film by a debutant director in the international competition category. The film was honored wi ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Mayim, who stars in "The Big Bang Theory," cites "irreconcilable differences" in her 9 year marriage to Michael Stone. The couple has 2 kids. They've talked about how they allow their kids to sleep in the same bed with them. Mayim, who previously starred in "Blossom," released a statement on her website saying, "The hands-on style of parenting we practice played no role in the chan ...

By Karl Flinders | Computer Weekly The number of global IT services deals with a cloud computing element have tripled since 2010, according to research from IT outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group (ISG).   ISG used its TPI index to analyse IT outsourcing deals and found this year will see 300 IT contracts awarded which feature cloud computing services. This compares with 110 in 2010 and 220 in ...

By ŞAHİN ALPAY I wrote last week that the recent Israeli aggression against Gaza is a test for US President Barack Obama as to whether he will keep his word from 2009 and work towards a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now that he has been re-elected. A cease-fire was reached once more, after scores of Palestinians were killed and Gaza was once more ravaged, but there is no indication ...

By Adam Shatz The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as eve ...

 Asif Haroon Raja Although the US has failed to win war in Afghanistan, it has succeeded in achieving most objectives it had chalked out in September 2001 against Pakistan through covert war. As against the advice of India, the US desisted from applying direct strategy due to Pakistan’s nuclear capability. The US and its strategic partners therefore embarked upon a well-thought plan to gradually weaken Paki ...

     By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan has been facing various kinds of subversive activities, yet foreign hostile elements have also accelerated sectarian violence as part of their unfinished agenda to destabilise the country. In the last week of Muharram, several people have been killed and injured in suicide attacks and bomb blasts. Despite the tight security measures, a bomb attack on a procession kil ...