Sanjay Kathuria/ The World Bank The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement has been in effect since 2006—with little success. This is in sharp contrast to the ASEAN free trade area (AFTA), which started in 1992 with six six countries and later added more members ...বিস্তারিত
Suresh Menon / Friday Magazine The new buzzword is “de-clutter” and the new buzz phrase is “spark joy”. Suddenly everyone around is busy folding clothes rather than hanging them, hugging furniture to see if they get “sparks of joy” and getting rid of everythin ...বিস্তারিত
Zarif Faiaz/ Hifipublic.com We Bangladeshis love to host guests. Especially if they are foreigners, we love to show them around our culture. In fact, we take a certain pride in it. And if the guest is a celebrity traveler and food enthusiast like Trevor James, a.k.a The F ...বিস্তারিত
Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow at ORF/ ORF (Observer Research Foundation) In many ways, some of the worst fears of the security forces have come true. The suicide bombing of the CRPF convoy near Pulwama on the National Highway connecting the Kashmir valley with rest of In ...বিস্তারিত
Aruna Uprety/ Nepali Times Women in the Far West Nepal are refusing to be banished to the cow shed during their periods Media reports of the practice of chhaupadi are full of harrowing tales of suffering, and women dying of cold or suffocation during their monthly exile ...বিস্তারিত
Irwin Loy, Asian Editor/ Irin News Aid groups and authorities in Bangladesh are preparing to ask for more than $900 million in donor funding to help Rohingya refugees in the sprawling refugee settlements of southern Bangladesh. But nearly 18 months after 700,000 Rohing ...বিস্তারিত
Jessica Stewart/My Modern Met Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan always knew her mother was taking photographs, but never fully understood just how deep this passion ran until recently. When Masha Ivashintsova passed in 2000, she left behind boxes of belongings and memories, whi ...বিস্তারিত
J&K: Escalatory Dynamic, South Asia Terrorism Portal The devastating suicide bombing at Awantipora in Jammu & Kashmir, inflicting the largest fatalities on Security Forces in a single incident across thirty years of insurgency in the State, will raise critical que ...বিস্তারিত
Sejuti Mourin of DOT Chiara D’Agostino, Blogger at Beauty Through The Beast and a former high school Italian teacher, was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time at age 43. After undergoing chemotherapy, two single mastectomies and reconstruction she eventually ...বিস্তারিত
Michelle Goldberg/BDnews24 Amid the unceasing awfulness of the Trump administration, I’ve lately found comfort in the Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek’s concept of “political time,” which has in turn informed my thinking about the almost utopian ambition ...বিস্তারিত