BABA UMAR 26 APR 2022 Billionaire Elon Musk buys one of the most influential social media platforms with millions of active users, sparking anxieties over unfettered online hate speech and “having so much power in the hands of one individual.” With billionaire Elon Musk sealing a $44 billion deal for Twitter and pledging to protect free speech, experts and rights groups.
BABA UMAR 13 APR 2022 I ask South Asia expert Michael Kugelman if Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be able to get Pakistan out of the political and economic crisis, repair ties with the US, and start negotiations with rival India over the Kashmir dispute. Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 220 million people, has always remained prone to political and economic turbulence. In.
BABA UMAR 29 MAR 2022 One of the best sites to witness peak bloom is the Tidal Basin in Washington DC, offering striking scenes to photo enthusiasts and for social media sharing (Baba Umar / TRTWorld) The US marks 110 years since Japan gifted the fruit trees, with thousands of people rushing to Washington DC to celebrate the National Cherry Blossom Festival. MORE HERE
BABA UMAR 25 DEC 2021 The Ethiopian diaspora in the United States is divided over which side is fighting for the just cause – the government forces or the Tigrayan rebels. Such are the inter-community tensions that friendships are falling apart. Washington DC/ Virginia — Shawel Betru (47) knows the heavy toll war takes on ordinary civilians. Because he has seen it all. He has.
Baba Umar 10 FEB 2021 Experts may be divided on whether a landslide or a glacier burst caused deadly flooding in Uttarakhand, but there is a consensus that ignoring warnings against building mega-projects in the vulnerable area contributed to the losses. Massive floods that crashed into two hydroelectric plants and damaged villages in northern India have put the spotlight back on mega-construction.
Thanks to a popular Turkish television series, Dirilis Ertugrul, beamed around the world, this once-forgotten town is experiencing a tourism boom. Baba Umar Sogut, Bilecik Sogut is a quaint, nondescript town of 14,000 people. A three-hour drive from Istanbul, navigating snaking roads cutting through the plateaus of sunflower, wheat, hop and lettuce.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to boost the popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party by harping on national security issues and decades-old disputes with nuclear rival Pakistan. Will it help the party earn electoral dividends? BABA UMAR 9 MAY 2019 Uttar Pradesh, India –– A gathering of distressed farmers and supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got into a heated.
The grand old party shows a vacillating leadership and seems unable to capitalise on right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s failures in government. BABA UMAR 25 APR 2019 NEW DELHI –– In 2014, a populist wave by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by its star campaigner Narendra Modi, drowned India’s Congress party, reducing.
At least 86 percent of eligible voters in the Kashmir valley abstained from voting, although in the southern Jammu belt, where Muslims and a sizeable Hindu population doesn’t shy away from casting votes, a 70 percent turnout was recorded. BABA UMAR 22 APR 2019 India-administered Kashmir –– As the morning sun shone over Ganderbal’s.
BABA UMAR 17 APR 2019 TRT World spoke with students from two influential universities in New Delhi, asking them about their electoral choices and to rate the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. Simran, 23 Student, Delhi University “I think the [BJP] government has been great. Though some parts of it like the economic aspect has bloomed,.
