Taleemabad, an education technology company that educates millions of children through learning apps, won the WISE Award. Qatar’s Royal family presents the WISE award, one of the foremost awards in the field of education and social welfare. The firm offers low-cost schools teacher training facilities, curriculum, lesson plans, and even marketing facilities.
Farmida Bi, London-based capital markets and Islamic finance partner of Norton Rose Fulbright was appointed as the firm’s Global Chair. The global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright offers a full range of legal services to the world’s leading corporations & financial institutions. Farmida has been listed as one of Britain’s top five most powerful Muslim women by The Times.
Saudi Arabian beauty contest has disqualified more than 40 camels for receiving Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements.
Kuwait has prohibited the entry of commercial vessels carrying goods to and from Israel into its territorial waters. Rana Al-Faris, minister of public works and state minister of communications and information technology, announced the ban over the weekend. The Kuwaiti ban stands in sharp contrast to the practices of other Gulf nations.
An Indian Air Force helicopter crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on Wednesday, killing 13 out of 14 people, including Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat. GP Capt Varun Singh SC, Director of Staff at DSSC with injuries is being treated at Military Hospital, Wellington, according to a tweet from the IAF.
The prominent US art collector and billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt returned 180 stolen antiquities. The items were stolen from countries including Pakistan and Lebanon, as well as ancient Greece, according to officials at the New York Justice Department. The items are estimated to be worth $70 million. The move by Steinhardt will allow him to remain free from prosecution and indictment.
The United States is the world’s biggest generator of plastic waste. The country urgently needs a strategy for curbing the vast amounts of plastic that end up in the oceans. The amount of plastic waste discarded worldwide each year is estimated at 242 million megatons. This is approximately the same amount as ten billion statues of liberty.
The UAE has granted Pakistani legend and pacer Wasim Akram the Golden Visa in recognition of his achievements in cricket. After Fakhr-e-Alam, Wasim Akram is the second Pakistani celebrity to be honored by the UAE. The 55-year-old took to Twitter to say he is honored to have received the Golden Visa.
Twitter said in a blog post that it has banned sharing pictures and videos of private individuals without their consent. The microblogging platform notes in its privacy policy that these kinds of media can be removed by contacting them. The policy does not apply to public figures whose tweets or articles are relevant to the public.
US scientists have created the world’s first living robots, known as xenobots, that can reproduce, unlike plants and animals. Developed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which its name is derived. These xenobots are only a few millimeters (0.04 inches) wide. They were first revealed in 2020.