Author: Tiasha Debnath.

Tiasha believes in writing about what is important rather than what is popular. She also believes that people can formulate social narratives if they want and that they should use their individual platform to be the reason for a change for the good.

Ethereum’s new “The Merge” update

Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency in the world after Bitcoin with a current value of $18880 USD per Bitcoin whereas it is $1,329.32 USD.  All the crypto enthusiasts across the world went gaga when Ethereum announced a major update in their mining system earlier.  Finally, the most anticipated update known as ‘The Merge’ took place on September 15, 2022.  Since then, there had been binary as well as mixed opinions about the Ethereum cryptocurrency blockchain system post ‘the update’.  Before we get there, let us gain some comprehension of what is ‘The Merge’.  The Ethereum merge is a major…

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Nike: all the recent whereabouts of the brand

Nobody is unknown to the giant. Nike is not just a sports apparel-making company anymore but a multimillion-dollar brand Nike has remained an OG in the sneaker industry and outgrown most of its competitors. It undoubtedly remains every sneakerhead’s favorite.  Let us learn some news that is cooking inside and around Nike:  Nike is about to release its third quarter fiscal 2022 reports which are keeping the analysts giving diverse opinions lately. While most of them have a lot of hope about the brand’s stocks hiking in the favor of the stockholders, few are still questioning the overall growth.  The…

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Anti-hijab protests taking place across Iran: what triggered it?  - Asiana Times

Protests break across the country for a woman’s death in police custody The word ‘Hijab’ is an Arabic word that means curtain. With reference to Islam, it literally means head coverings worn by Muslim women.  But the meaning of the Hijab in the Quran is much deeper. Quran refers to the hijab as an act of faith in God. It includes the Hijab of body, sight, thought, intention, and conduct.  Iran is witnessing women across the country burning their hijab and cutting their hair short in protest against Mahsa Amini’s death.  Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old Iranian woman who belonged…

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Germany buys 99% Stake in gas giant Uniper

Germany decided to nationalize gas giant Uniper by signing a deal to buy a 99% stake in the state-owned Finnish utility Fortum’s stake Uniper for about 500 million euros.  This is being seen as a part of the country’s gradual shift toward stage two of their three-stage emergency plan to cope with the gas shortage. Germany moves to the ‘alarm stage’ as a part of their preparation to be able to get along with Russia’s threat to an absolute shut of Natural Gas to G7 countries. Read more The Group of Seven (G7) is an inter-governmental political forum consisting of…

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Narrative of Rape in a conservative Society - Asiana Times

We are fooled to think rape in the modern day is a social malfunction.  As humans, our psychology aligns with recorded forms of data to understand complex situations. Recorded data liberates us from the dependency on “time”. Therefore, let us first get an overview of the theoretical approach to rape and some basic psychology of society surrounding it.  On searching for the definition of “rape” on Google, the most accessible tool, it says,  “The crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against    their will”  This small definition is enough to…

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Ongoing Airstrike in Tigray: May lead to a Civil War - Asiana Times

The story of a not-so-popular civil war While the mainstream media does not seem to get over the Queen of Britain’s death, political and civic situations around the world seem to attain a never-ending downward spiral with exponential growth in the speed with which the situation changes, only for the bad. The Ethiopian Government launched an airstrike in the capital city of Mekelle, Tigray. An unanticipated drone strike hit the city ending up bombarding several public places including a university, a busy local market, and a school. The aftermath of the airstrike was the death of innumerable innocent people and…

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Salt Rooms in Sednaya Prison: Ex-prisoner reveals Syria’s dark truth  - Asiana Times

                      World discovers another Holocaust The Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison (ADMSP), which is an organization which aims on unfurling and exposing the darker truth about the dark Syrian Civil War that still remains very much unknown to the rest of the World.  The Syrian Civil War is considered to be the biggest humanitarian crises that the modern world has witnessed. It started back in 2011 and is still on going, not having the plan to stop anytime soon. A deadly war that broke out between…

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