The government of Pakistan threatened unspecified “legal action” against Wikipedia and Google this weekend for featuring content about Ahmadi Muslims — considered “impostor” Muslims by radical Islamists — and for featuring cartoons of Muhammad in search results. Pakistan is an Islamic country currently led by Islamist Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan
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The application of welded wire fabric that first comes to mind for most engineers and contractors is the reinforcement of nonstructural slabs on grade with rolls of "building fabric." This is usually light mesh designated 6x6 W1.4xW1.4. The first pair of numbers indicates the spacing of the wires in inches.
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Civil engineering is considered the second-oldest engineering discipline, with military engineering considered the oldest. Civil engineering is a professional discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physically and naturally built environment, especially public sector works such as roads, bridges, dams, highways, airports, pipelines, sewage and drainage
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An executive at the popular video-conferencing app Zoom was charged by the DOJ with conspiring to terminate Zoom meetings that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at the behest of the Chinese government. The incident is a troubling signal of the lengths companies based in America will go to maintain
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From internet blackouts to contact tracing apps, digital rights across Africa were spotlighted in 2020 as millions of people were forced online to work, study and socialise amid lockdowns to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. Rights advocates and research groups raised concerns that measures enacted to curb the spread
Read MoreA young architect with 5 – 10 years postgraduate experience is needed for partnership on projects. He must show great capacity for designs, register with relevant professional bodies, Government agencies and must be ready to work in mostly Niger Delta region and other part of the country. Forward your Expression of Interest,
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Concrete is more widely used than any other manmade material and has been a construction staple for centuries. The early use of primarily lime-based concrete by the Egyptians and Greeks dates back to 2000 B.C. In the mid-1800s, steel-reinforced concrete was developed using steel ropes, I-beams, and bars; and prestressed
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The fiscal terms in the current Petroleum Industry Bill may lead to a 38 per cent reduction in Nigeria’s deepwater oil production in 2025, an industry group comprising international and indigenous oil firms in the country has said. The operators also said the country could lose over 30 per cent of
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Many events happened in the telecommunication sector of Nigeria this year but the biggest of all is still the federal government’s directive to all telecommunications operators to get the National Identity Numbers (NINs) of their customers linked to their SIM registration. This came in mid-December and the government initially handed the
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South Korea’s fusion reactor set a new world record this week, maintaining temperatures of over 100 million degrees, hotter than the core of the Sun, for 20 seconds. That’s twice as long as the previously record. The team behind the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) pulled it off with help
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