The other day a correspondent asked me a good question: What important issue aren’t we talking about? My answer, after some reflection, is the state of America’s children. Now, it’s not entirely fair to say that we’re ignoring the plight of our children. Elizabeth W ...বিস্তারিত
The US assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani has exacerbated uncertainty and instability in Iraq and increased rather than diminished Iran’s influence in that country. Furthermore, US troops based there are more rather than less at risk of attack f ...বিস্তারিত
Navid Hossain HiFi Public If this is allowed, then students can take a subject from another section along with two subjects of his chosen section if he wants to... Big changes are coming to pre-primary school to high school levels’ education system. Whether student ...বিস্তারিত
The recent killing of Iran's Gen. Qasem Soleimani seems to have been the product of two factors: opportunity -- the US had him targeted -- and timing. That second factor relates to the impeachment trial about to begin in the Senate and the President's habit of diverting our ...বিস্তারিত
Arun Bikash Dey/ The Daily Star Graveyards are considered a site of mourning, a place to remember the dead, their many trials and triumphs. But a graveyard can also serve as a historical site, a place to learn not only about the individuals buried there, but also of our c ...বিস্তারিত
If you thought you would never find Bill Gates and Greta Thunberg in a room together, just wait till January 21 and the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The “international organisation for public-private cooperation” takes place next week in the swish Sw ...বিস্তারিত
Emma Parker, PhD Candidate, School of English, University of Leeds/ The Conversation Between 1940 and 1942 Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist, created a sequence of 784 paintings while hiding from the Nazi authorities. She gave the sequence a single title: Le ...বিস্তারিত
Tim Mullaney/NDTV House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s timing on the matter of impeaching President Donald Trump has been impeccable — until this week. She held off betting the political ranch on the Russia scandal, destined to peter out after no one in the infamous Trump Tow ...বিস্তারিত
If you have read any of my previous articles, you would have sensed that I am a pure optimist at heart, and I hope I will always continue to be an optimist. I write on what I think, and at times I write based on my gut feeling on where I think we are heading towards in this ...বিস্তারিত
When a Pakistani Cabinet minister banged an army boot on the table during a live TV show in the past week, the country’s rulers and their disconnect with the ongoing political slide became obvious once again. Minister Faisal Vawda with a history of clumsy theatrics used t ...বিস্তারিত