Hilary Brueck and Canela López / Business Insider The coronavirus is killing a disproportionate share of Black and brown Americans, especially young ones. As of June 6, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that Black Americans aged 35-44 years ...বিস্তারিত
Sławomir Sierakowski/ Project Syndicate As expected, the European Parliament has torn into the European Council’s recently agreed budget and pandemic-response package. The €1.8 trillion ($2.1 trillion) price tag and proposed cuts to development funding, including sci ...বিস্তারিত
Thomas L Friedman/BDnews24 When people ask me about my mood these days, I tell them that I feel like I’m a reporter for The Pompeii Daily News in A.D. 79, and I’m sitting in the foothills of Mount Vesuvius and someone just walked up and asked, “Hey, do you feel a ru ...বিস্তারিত
Juan Manuel Santos, Sabina Alkire/ Project Syndicate Today’s pandemic-induced humanitarian and economic crisis represents an unprecedented opportunity to go beyond emergency responses and address our economies’ structural flaws. Many governments’ stimulus and recove ...বিস্তারিত
The Hajj is an annual five-day pilgrimage that usually sees millions of Muslims travel from around the world to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. This year, the number of pilgrims has been restricted to 1,000 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (AFP) [caption i ...বিস্তারিত
Steven Stashwick/ The Diplomat A U.S. shipyard is proceeding with initial studies and design evaluation for a new generation of advanced ocean surveillance vessels for detecting and tracking submarines, with the first ship to be delivered in 2025. The yard also built the ...বিস্তারিত
Bloomberg Indian families, sitting on the world’s biggest private stash of gold, are rushing to borrow against their jewelry as the precious metal rallies to records and the coronavirus pandemic fuels an economic downturn. Now, financial firms and banks are using that d ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed,Former Deputy Director General Bangladesh Ansar VDP & Writer, Columnist and Researcher. The government of Bangladesh finalized the ICT policy in 2009, although the work of formulating this policy started in 2002. In the light of the government's ...বিস্তারিত
Hyonhee Shin/ Reuters South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s new point men on North Korea face a daunting challenge: they must engineer a breakthrough in strained ties amid public scrutiny of their history with Pyongyang, which once landed them in prison. Moon ...বিস্তারিত
Robert Farley/ National Interest In the final months of the Second World War, the battleships of the U.S. Navy (USN) ranged across the archipelago of Japan, bombarding industrial, military and logistical targets at will. The Japanese military lacked enough ships, planes a ...বিস্তারিত