Shafiqul Alam, AFP News Agency In a Western nation, he would have been feted with the highest honour of the country -- a kind of Independence Award. But here in Bangladesh only a few people are aware of his ground breaking glass-ceiling shattering work for the country's tra ...বিস্তারিত
Shafiqul Alam /AFP News Agency Half a million taka to perform a Hajj is an absurb figure. There is no way this expense can be defended. I am sure an Indian Hajj pilgrim does not spend half the amount to perform Hajj. Indian government no longer subsidises pilgrimages of its ...বিস্তারিত
Erfan Ali / Devex Adored by think tanks and academics alike, there’s no doubt that “urbanization” is becoming a policy buzzword. Yet the rural exodus of the past 50 years — resulting in more than 4.2 billion of us now living in cities — certainly marks a paradi ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Otto Nzapfurundi Chabikuli /Devex As Americans rightfully celebrate the Biden administration’s announcement of a national push to better understand and treat long COVID, low-resource countries in other parts of the globe risk being left behind. Again. Health expert ...বিস্তারিত
Rachel Shabi /The Guardian: Before the pandemic, Edwin, a 59-year-old retired nurse, was just about getting by. His home in Northfield, an outer suburb of Birmingham, was “in chaos”, so crowded with stuff that he could only really use one room. He’d go to the local ...বিস্তারিত
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett/ The Guardian: In recent years, I’ve heard members of the older generation complain that it is no longer considered acceptable to ask a younger person whether or not they have children. It’s true that this isn’t polite, especially during small ...বিস্তারিত
Darya Bassel/The Guardian: Ukraine’s Maidan revolution of 2014, or as we call it, “the revolution of dignity”, coincided with the 11th year of a documentary film festival which takes place annually in Kyiv. The 2014 edition of Docudays UA started just as the revolu ...বিস্তারিত
Rainbow Murray/ The Conversation: France’s electoral system is held over two rounds. In the first, anyone who meets the threshold criteria (this year, 12 candidates) can run. Assuming no one wins an absolute majority (this has never happened), the top two candidates go ...বিস্তারিত
Veronica Edmonds-Brown/ The Conversation: It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through a city. What’s even more surprising is that it reached that status just 60 years after being declared “biol ...বিস্তারিত
Rich Lowry/Politico Once upon a time, it would have been considered a cardinal rule in Florida politics not to get in a public fight with the Walt Disney Company.In fact, it didn’t have to be a rule. No one would have considered it conceivable. The iconic American brand ...বিস্তারিত
