Science Source : In late November, more than 110 people gathered at a crowded Christmas party at a restaurant in Oslo, Norway. Most of the guests were fully vaccinated. One had returned from South Africa just a few days earlier and was unknowingly carrying the omicron var ...বিস্তারিত
Nanjala Nyabola / Al’Jazeera : 2021 was the year of political leadership, or more importantly, lack of it, and an invitation to reflect on the social consequences of leadership failures. I think for many of us, it was the year that felt like when time slows down while y ...বিস্তারিত
The Economist : For decades regimes in the Middle East have alleged that homosexuality is both morally unacceptable and a Western import. Many gay activists disagree on both counts. Homophobia is the Western import, they claim, introduced by puritanical Europeans. “Ban th ...বিস্তারিত
TTW BLocated on the west bank of the Bhagirathi River, about a mile upstream from Murshidabad, the former capital of undivided Bengal, lies Khushbagh (literally the ‘Garden of Happiness’) , the garden-cemetery of the Nawabs of Bengal. The serene and somber garden is t ...বিস্তারিত
Ishrat Husain / The Daily Star : Bangladesh is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Once called a "basket case" by Henry Kissinger, it is now considered as a role model. Bangladesh's national income has multiplied 50 times, per capita income 25 times (higher than India's and ...বিস্তারিত
GB GetBengal : Poush Mela is synonymous with Santiniketan and is one of the prime cultural festivals of Birbhum district. The festival is celebrated at Santiniketan Fair Ground near Bolpur railway station annually and is thronged by people from different cultures, traditi ...বিস্তারিত
BBC : Sometimes publicity falls out of the sky. On 24 November, just a couple of weeks before Adam McKay's apocalyptic disaster comedy Don't Look Up opened in cinemas, Nasa launched a spacecraft called Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) to see if it could alter the t ...বিস্তারিত
CNN : It's less than an hour's drive from Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, yet the Vipava Valley hasn't really registered on the tourist radar.This lusciously fertile region that stretches west to the Italian border has a magical combination of exceptionally fine wine and f ...বিস্তারিত
It's Nice To Be Important, But It's More Important To Be Nice/ Facebook Page : On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1907, in his last address as Savannah City Judge, Thomas Norwood, former U.S. Senator, argued to a crowd of white Savannah residents for the execution of Black ...বিস্তারিত
Daily Sabah : Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were – again – the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. New Year's Eve, which used to ...বিস্তারিত
