Ishaan Tharoor, writes about foreign affairs/Washington Post Here’s an apt summary of our present: “All over the world, the protesters … share a belief that their countries’ economies have grown dysfunctional and corrupt — sham democracies rigged to favour the p ...বিস্তারিত
Bradley K. Martin/Asian Times It’s quite true that the North Korean regime is secretive to the extreme. However, in the 42 years since I started as a Pyongyang watcher, I’ve found that the thinking of the ruling Kims and their minions is far from impenetrable. The ba ...বিস্তারিত
Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes Staff Investing/Forbes Last summer, my husband and I bought a house. We got married a few months prior, and I knew that more space would be critical to the success of our relationship. A one-bedroom condo would create problems as we figured out h ...বিস্তারিত
At the very young age, Hazera Begum lost her mother. She left her house, being unable to tolerate her step mother . She abandons the life of a sex worker when she was 23. At the age of 46, she becomes the mother of more than 40 children,without giving birth to them.Her idea ...বিস্তারিত
Marina Khidekel, Editorial Director at Thrive Global/Thrive Global The viral story on the toxic workplace culture at the luggage startup Away had the internet buzzing about the rampant distrust (and workplace bullying) that went under the radar at the company for so long. ...বিস্তারিত
Internet freedom is increasingly imperiled by the tools and tactics of digital authoritarianism, which have spread rapidly around the globe. Repressive regimes, elected incumbents with authoritarian ambitions, and unscrupulous partisan operatives have exploited the unregulat ...বিস্তারিত
The Print If India’s judiciary held any hope of regaining some of its lost image in the eyes of the public, then 2019 clearly didn’t turn out to be that year. If there’s one institution in India that would not want to look back on 2019, it’s the judiciary. Even ...বিস্তারিত
National Geographic In 2016, clinicians announced the birth of a “three-parent baby” grown from the father’s sperm, the mother’s cell nucleus, and a third donor’s egg that had its nucleus removed. The therapy—which remains ethically controversial—aims to cor ...বিস্তারিত
Mercy Wachira, the digital innovation and implementation lead for BRAC International Microfinance/ BRAC I was delighted to attend this year’s FinEquity annual meeting and the Women’s World Banking Making Finance Work for Women summit in Singapore, where compelling bus ...বিস্তারিত
1990: Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship 1986: Mark Messier is suspended for 10 games for instigating a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone 1978: India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail 1971: Muhamma ...বিস্তারিত