“North Adams truly needs broad, transparent leadership,” he said. “That reflects who we are as a community, where we have been and where we need to go together, against the backdrop of tight finances.”
Trade groups representing U.S. public power and natural gas companies urged President Joe Biden to declare a gas emergency for last week's extreme weather and authorize the secretary of energy to cap the price of gas.
Public forum arranged in BattagramOur correspondent
Peshawar
February 24, 2021
BATTAGRAM: The Battagram district administration on Tuesday arranged a public forum to help address the grievances of the people.
Deputy Commissioner Abdul Hameed Khan, Additional Deputy Commissioner Zahid Usman Kakakhel, Assistant Commissioner Tahmas Khan and officials from other line departments were present there.
Abdul Hameed Khan said the purpose of the public forum was to facilitate the access of citizens to government officials so that their problems and grievances could be identified and resolved immediately. The deputy commissioner issued instructions on the spot to the relevant officials to resolve the problems.
The people praised the step taken by the district administration and hoped the public forum would help resolve the issues faced by them.
Dumped WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann could reap US$500m ahead of Spac deal
24 Feb, 2021 12:37 AM
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Financial Times
By: Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Eric Platt and James Fontanella-Khan Adam Neumann could reap almost US$500 ($680m) in cash from his holdings in WeWork and emerge with a stake in a public company, less than 18 months after the high-profile failure of its initial public offering cost him his job as chief executive.
SoftBank is in advanced talks with WeWork s co-founder and other shareholders to settle a bitter legal battle stemming from the Japanese group s October 2019 rescue of the office group, which was needed to help it avert bankruptcy in the wake of the IPO s collapse, people familiar with the negotiations said.
The unsung female artists of Karachi reclaiming public spaces
Entertainment
By Eesha Iftikhar Qazi
The city of Karachi had its first exclusive all-women arts exhibition titled
Andekhey [the obscured] on the 19th and 20th February, to showcase the artwork of aspiring young female artists.
The event was organized by Marium Asif at Pinky Gul, one of the only women-centric safe community spaces for women in the metropolis.
While art exhibitions are not rare in the country, what makes
Andekhey stand out is the space it provides to aspiring female artists whose art has never seen the light of the day.