Welcome to another read of the week’s trending headlines. This week includes Mother’s day celebrations, Lebanon elections, Superhero movie and relegation battle in EPL. The week started on a good note with International Mother’s day being celebrated on 8th May. Besides the normal acts of… Read More
This week has been short as we have long weekend in most Middle Eastern countries starting tomorrow, however this has not affected the trending headlines. The most trending news this week has been the worrying situation in the city of Aleppo. UN Security Council is… Read More
The week started with the sad news of death of celebrity singer, musician and actor Prince Rogers Nelson. The musician who had reported cases of illness previously was found unresponsive on April 21 before being declared dead. Musicians, celebrities and fans all over the world took… Read More
The week started on a negative note with the oil trade talks, which was held in Doha (Qatar) between major oil exporting countries yielding no results. The talks started off on the back foot with the non-participation of Iran from the meeting that then resulted… Read More
And there would be some who would stop reading this opinion right from the headline itself. It is true that our industry has formed a habit of either looking at politically correct replies or skirting issues of any kind of bias. The J. Walter Thompson… Read More
The week started with the unfortunate incident of a temple in Kollam, Kerela catching fire. The fire, which was an outcome of a defective rocket falling onto a batch of fire-crackers, resulted in over 100 deaths and left close to 350 injured. Relatives, friends and… Read More
“The Secret of Change Is to Focus All of Your Energy, Not on Fighting the Old, But on Building the New”- Socrates In today’s unforgiving world, survival of brands has become increasingly difficult. Brands need to constantly adapt to their surroundings. While the ‘survival’ of… Read More
The highlight for this week has been the leak of confidential documents that have been termed the Panama Papers #PanamaPapers or #PanamaLeaks. A massive investigation led by hundreds of journalists who went through more than 11 million documents from the secret files of Mossack Fonseca… Read More
Another week, and another mishap. This time the location is Lahore, Pakistan. The tragic incident involved a suicide bomber detonating himself just meters away from children’s rides in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal park. Reportedly, this resulted in at least 70 deaths and several others were left injured.… Read More
The ironical week comes to an end, where world’s happiness day was celebrated with hashtags such as #InternationalDayOfHappiness and #اليوم_العالمي_للسعاده only to be followed by the unfortunate crash of Fly Dubai plane while attempting to land in Russia killing around 62 passengers and crew members.… Read More
