Al Jazeera The Taliban have appointed five former commanders who spent more than a decade as prisoners in Guantanamo Bay as members of its political office in Qatar, where tentative talks to end the Afghan conflict are ongoing. The five commanders, Mohammad Fazl, Mohammed N ...বিস্তারিত
Tahjib Shamsuddin, Communications specialist at BRAC/Project Syndicate Microfinance is the idea that individuals from low-income backgrounds are capable of lifting themselves out of poverty if given access to financial services. This starts with what most of us take for g ...বিস্তারিত
Abrar Hussain of DOT A new lawsuit has alleged that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein forced a 16-year-old Polish model to touch his genitalia, subjecting her to years of harassment and emotional abuse as well as blocking her from a successful acting career as p ...বিস্তারিত
Idi Ngowi/Seven Billion Today : Now you may be thinking I myself am crazy. But how can it be in this day of age our country Tanzania's governor boss of Dar es Salaam makes a special investigation team tasked on to tracking down homo lovers? I know homo is a sin. But I ...বিস্তারিত
Betsy Thomas, Human Resources manager/Linked In Winners never quit. Life is a race, full of hurdles & in every stage of our life we have to pass the hurdle to get into next, but whenever we face challenges, we tend to get more negative and plan to quit. Our problem ...বিস্তারিত
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist/Daily O, India The next round of economic sanctions on Iran, which will start going into effect on Nov.4, will mainly target the country’s oil and gas industries. These sanctions were eased afte ...বিস্তারিত
Helen Womack & Rafał Kostrzynski in Kraków, Poland/UNHCR Syrian poet Kholoud Charaf, granted a two-year residency in the Polish city of Kraków, is making good use of her new position to speak out about the suffering caused by the civil war in Syria and of the refug ...বিস্তারিত
Arianna Huffington, Founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global/ Thrive Global Join the call by the American Jewish Committee to #ShowUpForShabbat The horrific crime of a gunman breaking into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday ...বিস্তারিত
Frank Bruni, New York Times Op-Ed columnist/BDnews24 Nora Ephron once wrote a brilliant essay about the trajectory of her and many other people’s infatuations with email, from the thrill of discovering this speedy new way of keeping in touch to the hell of not being abl ...বিস্তারিত
UNICEF Eighty per cent of all children in the country require humanitarian assistance. The conflict has made Yemen a living hell for children. Over 11 million children – 80 per cent of all children in the country – require humanitarian assistance. Worsening years ...বিস্তারিত