Aashaa Zahid

Researcher and Journalist, Violence and Extremism Analyst from Bangladesh
Portfolio: ideas or stories: [email protected]

[Aashaa Zahid @aashaa]

Attending Plan International's workshop on climate and disaster for Journalists.

[Sanjay Kumar @sanjayjavin]

research shows that we are speaking less and hence losing out on the human factor.from 2005 to 2019,average number of words spoken per day has fallen from 16600 to 12000.a fall of 28% over 14 years .that’s 330 less words per year leading to 1.20 lakhs words in a year.

has fallen across all ages but more steeply for persons less than 25 years of age.a sign of increasing social isolation, preference to text than speak aided by the contactless nature of digital economy.

@EduMinOfIndia @TIME

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Straits of Hormuz are named after Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism

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Shooting for USAID's ACTB program 2024

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Interviewing MIT researcher Nadim Chowdhury on Semiconductor industry of Bangladesh

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Doing journalism during July 2024

Location Jamuna Future Park

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury @nhasive]

The members of Bangladesh’s team (@BdMOC) for 67th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) are: Monami Zaman, Md. Raihan Siddiqui, Jawad Hamim Chowdhury, Mohammad Marzuk Rahman, Tahsin Khan & Jamiul Hossain. Congratulations and Best wishes!

[Aashaa Zahid @aashaa]

Traveling Rajshahi for finding silk routes with @AyreenKhan

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

What kind of world are we leaving behind? Unfortunately, it is a world distorted by war and war-like language. This pollution of reason comes from the geopolitical sphere and invades every social relationship. Any simplification that creates enemies must be corrected, especially in universities, through complexity of thought and wise exercise of memory.

[Reetika Revathy Subramanian @reetiks]

Join a hands-on workshop on climate migration reporting & writing in South Asia alongside leading media practitioners and scientists @icimod

🗓️ July 1–3, 2026
📍 Kathmandu, Nepal
⏰ Apply by May 26, 2026

Learn more: https://t.co/BmiTBon6Rh

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

[Aashaa Zahid @aashaa]

The brightest star of Bengali literature is the world poet Rabindranath Tagore.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

We're celebrating the 165th anniversary of the birth of a true great: Rabindranath Tagore, who was born #onthisday 7 May, in 1861 in Calcutta, India.

The first non-European literature laureate, he was awarded the #NobelPrize "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Read more: https://t.co/cglURuTyvy

#Tagore165

[European Parliament @Europarl_EN]

No democracy without media freedom.

"The European Parliament stands firm in defending free speech, protecting journalists, and acting to uphold media freedom. Because a free press is essential to every democracy". @EP_President on World Press Freedom Day.

[Aashaa Zahid @aashaa]

Neshat Unzum here in Jamuna Television

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Celebrating World Press Freedom Day 2026

[Aashaa Zahid @aashaa]

Shoot for July Movement

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Framing on TB issues for USAIDs ACTB program

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Journalism is not a crime. Governments should take note.

From warring parties targeting journalists in Yemen to a Hong Kong Court’s conviction of former publisher Jimmy Lai, there are steep efforts to curtail free speech worldwide. This is precisely why we must speak out.

On World Press Freedom Day, we continue to fight all forms of repression of speech, in all media, around the globe. #WorldPressFreedomDay

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day, sponsored by UNESCO. Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in hidden ways. Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of war and violence.