Abrar Hussain of DOT : Newly appointed German Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Fahrenholtz expressed German business community’s interest in investing in Bangladesh. He made the remarks while paying a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in the capital y ...বিস্তারিত
Erin Loos Cutraro, founder and CEO of She Should Run/Thrive Global With burnout representing a serious barrier to female leadership, it’s time that we name it and do something about it. Looking back on the historic night we had for women, there is—no doubt—a sense ...বিস্তারিত
Patty Alleman, Senior Advisor, Gender Section, UNICEF & Catherine Poulton, Child Protection Manager at UNICEF/UNICEF A lock. A light. A secure shelter. All three can prevent violence against girls and women in emergencies, and provide a sense of security in a time of ...বিস্তারিত
Elliot Ross, Writer and researcher/Aljazeera Scotland should take responsibility for the major and highly lucrative role it played in the transatlantic slave trade. The late Jamaican-British intellectual Stuart Hall liked to describe the entanglement of the United King ...বিস্তারিত
Qian Liu, Economist based in China/Channel NewsAsia We must take seriously the possibility that the next economic crisis could lead to a large-scale military confrontation, says economist Qian Liu. The next economic crisis is closer than you think. But what you should r ...বিস্তারিত
J. Courtney Sullivan, Novelist/ Gulf News In the trenches with a baby, you need someone to text at 2am My friend Cathy and I recently took an afternoon off and got a couples massage. We lay side by side in a small candlelit room entirely at ease. It was the third time ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters : After nearly two weeks of documenting the harrowing journey of a caravan of mostly Central American migrants headed towards the U.S.-Mexican border, I snapped a picture I will never forget. In the shot, taken on Sunday, you can see Honduran mother Maria Meza, 35, g ...বিস্তারিত
Richard N. Haass/Qantara Following the massacre of protesting students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s administration limited its sanctions and kept lines of communication open, owing to China's strategic importance. Richard N. ...বিস্তারিত
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong, & Xiao Geng, President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance/Project Syndicate During its 40 years of reform, China has mastered learning by doing, engaged ...বিস্তারিত
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women /My Republica We still do not know the true extent of violence against women, as the fear of reprisals, impact of not being believed, and the stigma borne by the survivor—not the perpe ...বিস্তারিত