Antoine Shalhat/Middle East Monitor In a radio interview this week, one of the ministers of the right-wing Likud party said, “the two-state solution is dead”. This is the latest of a slew of Israeli statements related surrounding the revival of the so-called Confedera ...বিস্তারিত
Xinhua: South Korean state prosecutors demanded a 20-year imprisonment on Thursday for former conservative President Lee Myung-bak over corruption charges. Prosecutors said in a final court hearing of the Lee case that the Seoul Central District Court should sentence Lee to ...বিস্তারিত
Tafi Mhaka, Johannesburg-based social and political commentator/Aljazeera Foreign governments ignoring rights abuses to secure economic benefit in Zimbabwe will only enable oppression. On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad: In a landmark ruling, India's Supreme Court yesterday struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex at the centre of years of legal battles. "The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community," Chief Justice Dipak Misra said while delivering the ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Thousands of Thais feasted royally in the capital on Thursday to celebrate the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave, a dramatic and highly dangerous mission that gripped the world for more than two weeks. The team were guests of honor at a go ...বিস্তারিত
Daniel Gros, Director of the Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies/Project Syndicate Even as the flow of refugees into Europe dwindles, anti-immigrant sentiment continues to rise, and is now being expressed violently in some areas. Economic factors probably pl ...বিস্তারিত
BSS Rumpa Islam recently got a job at a multi-national company as an executive officer after obtaining MBA degree from the Finance and Banking Department of a private university. On the first day of her job, many colleagues congratulated her. One of them told her to see ...বিস্তারিত
P Prabakaran/UNICEF Last year, Nhaveen, a 17-year-old boy, was beaten by a gang of boys in an empty field. They thought he was too effeminate and wanted him to “man up.” After, Nhaveen fell into a coma and never woke up. Bullying is an issue that is close to my heart ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: It was March 12, 2018 when an US-Bangla Airlines, Bombardier Dash 8 (DHC-8-Q400) aircraft (Flight No. BS-211) with seventy-one passengers on board met a catastrophic accident at the premises of Tribhuvan International Airport. That tragic accident took the life ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel: A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated yesterday, as Japan grappled with devastation caused by its most powerful storm in a quarter of a century, reports AFP. Boats were ferrying stranded ...বিস্তারিত