Kabir Humayun: Garm-ent workers will demonstrate in their factory areas across the country on September 21 protesting the fixation of minimum wage at Tk 8, 000. They also decided to continue their protest rally until the government fulfills their demand of re-fixing their m ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel: In a major victory for the Muslim women, the Indian Cabinet yesterday approved an ordinance making Triple Talaq a punishable offence. The cabinet approved an executive order on the amended Triple Talaq Bill that was deferred to the next session of pa ...বিস্তারিত
WHO: An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes, according to new mortality estimates released by WHO, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group. The vast majority of ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel: A figurative bronze sculpture of Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will be put up for sale by auction in order to raise money for charity, said Dr Thant Thaw Kaung, executive committee member of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, reports Eleven Media Group. ...বিস্তারিত
M Humayun Kabir: The Australian government is considering options in response to the UN Fact-Finding Mission's report, including targeted sanctions on Myanmar. "The full report of the Fact-Finding Mission adds to a large body of evidence indicating the commission of the mos ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi yesterday. President Ghani arrived in Delhi yesterday morning, news agency ANI reported. The Afghan President and Prime Minister Modi are expected to hold talks on a number of issues ...বিস্তারিত
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age What if the four leaders of the Mujib-nagar government had not died in November 1975? All these years after the medieval manner of their murder, it is naïve to ask what might have been if things had happened differently. ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel: The world should help Africa invest in its people as the continent confronts a demographic boom, said billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, whose foundation released its annual yesterday, reports AFP, Reuters. Gates put forward a "simple idea" that investing ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad: Alibaba (BABA.N) Chairman Jack Ma said trade frictions between the US and China could last for two decades, and would be “a mess” for all parties involved. Ma was speaking at an Alibaba investor conference hours after Washington said it would impose dut ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy Director General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy : Crimes are terrible social burden. It is detrimental to society. With the advancement of civilizations and the progress of economic and infrastructure development, crimes have incre ...বিস্তারিত