NDTV:A clear "chain of command" should be in place when multiple stakeholders get on-board to combat disaster and government agencies should ensure that India becomes a top-notch nation for managing such emergencies, Home Minister Amit Shah said yesterday. Mr Shah said it i ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardian: In the Gard region, where France’s highest temperature on record was registered on Friday at 45.9 degrees Celsius (114 degrees Fahrenheit), scores of fires burned some 600 hectares (about 1,500 acres) of land and destroyed several houses and vehicles, emergen ...বিস্তারিত
Kalpana Viswanath/The Hindustan Times Cities have always been spaces for marginalised and disadvantaged groups to claim space and rights. This is pride month, where inclusivity is celebrated by and for the LGBTQI community. Many cities globally will celebrate by having l ...বিস্তারিত
I.A. Rehman/Dawn The figure of 3,445 children who were sexually abused in 2017 has often been mentioned as an annual estimate. A chilling case recently reported involved 10-year-old Farishta. It exposed, in addition to a sex fiend’s brutality, the customary cupidity of ...বিস্তারিত
Karl W. Smith/Bloomberg The former vice president may be the only candidate who can keep the party from taking a hard left turn. Last night’s Democratic debate made it clear that the party is no friend of the American business community. With few exceptions, the candid ...বিস্তারিত
Sumaiya Tasnim/HiFi Public With the movies that we are expecting to excite us head over heels, Fahim is that one movie that will leave us with tears, joy and a roller coaster of emotions. An unexpected french treat about a Bangladeshi champion. Acted by Ahmed Assad, this ...বিস্তারিত
Rasheed Kidwai/Daily O The grand old party seems adamant to cling to the Nehru-Gandhis and not reinvent. But PM Modi's continuing obsession with the Congress also indicates that perhaps all isn't lost for it. A month after May 23's crushing Lok Sabha polls defeat, the go ...বিস্তারিত
Chris Tinney/ The Conversation The planets closer to the Sun than the Earth are indeed hotter than the Earth is. But that still doesn’t make them hot enough to melt the rocks that they are made from! Mercury is the small, rocky planet nearest the Sun. The side that fa ...বিস্তারিত
Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority/Gulf News Washington’s ‘economic peace’ plan is a blueprint for permanent apartheid, not peace. The Trump administration on Saturday unveiled the economic portion of its long-awaited diplomatic ...বিস্তারিত
Simantini Ghosh/Indian Express It’s time humans stop expecting cats to relate to them as dogs. The editorial, ‘Puppy eyes’ (IE, June 19) claims that dogs have evolved to manipulate human emotions, based on a finding by a research group at the University of Portsmou ...বিস্তারিত