Karan Thapar/ Hindustan Times They say cometh the hour cometh the man. I’ve no doubt the hour has arrived but the man that comes to my mind is missing. Yet the more I think of two of the dominant crises confronting our country today, the more I reflect on what ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Sinha MA Sayeed/ Dhaka Courier Ruling 14-party alliance led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is full of activity with the formulation of Budget 2020-2021 under such landscapes when world is befuddled and challenged with COVID-19, which shall be placed in Parl ...বিস্তারিত
David Leo/ Today Online If you are thinking of taking a trip in November when the year-end school holidays commence, you can fly to London and back on Singapore Airlines (SIA) for S$975 or to San Francisco on United Airlines for S$713. Other popular Asian destinations of ...বিস্তারিত
Alex Milan Tracy /Sipa USA The use of riot control agents against protesters is nothing new. Tear gas has been used repeatedly against protesters in Hong Kong, the Arab Springs protests and the Occupy protests, just to name a few major examples. But now the debate over t ...বিস্তারিত
David Taylor/ ABC Every month the Reserve Bank announces its interest rate policy settings. If there's a change in its policy, invariably, the question always goes to whether or not borrowing rates have been affected. But what about deposit rates? They affect just as man ...বিস্তারিত
Mike Wehner/ BGR NASA has a lot of high-powered space-gazing hardware at its disposal. From ground-based telescopes to the orbiting eyes of Hubble, the space agency can direct its attention at just about whatever feature of the night sky it desires. The New Hori ...বিস্তারিত
Todd Baer, an award winning journalist and media executive based in London/ Al Jazeera On May 26, I sent a text message to a good friend and former colleague back in Minneapolis. She was busy, she told me, covering the reaction to the death of a man in police cu ...বিস্তারিত
Dharna Noor/ Gizmodo Solutions to inequality are often portrayed as being at odds with environmental protection. It doesn’t have to be an either-or choice, though. A new study argues that an Indonesian program to help people out of poverty also saved trees. It ...বিস্তারিত
Al Monitor On May 31, the Egyptian armed forces announced in a statement that 19 militants had been killed during military strikes carried out during the previous week in Sinai. The same statement said the strikes were based on intelligence information that conf ...বিস্তারিত
Tom Oliver/ Nationa Interest Humans are the most cooperative species on the planet – all part of a huge interconnected ecosystem. We have built vast cities, connected by a global nervous system of roads, shipping lanes and optical fibres. We have sent thousand ...বিস্তারিত