Andrei Movchan, Nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center/Project Syndicate Modern Russia has never had a proper pension system. It inherited from the Soviet Union both very low retirement ages – 55 for women and 60 for men – and ...বিস্তারিত
Hasanuzzaman, LSE alumni/BDnews24 All governments rely on the apparatus of bureaucracy for governance. With the end of British rule in 1947, India and (West) Pakistan got on with their self-rule. West Pakistan, like British colonial rulers, needed bureaucrats who could m ...বিস্তারিত
Diana Buttu, Lawyer specializing in international law/ Reuters On September 27, Palestinian Authority President and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas addressed the U.N. General Assembly for the 14th time. Among Palestinians, expectations had ...বিস্তারিত
Fawaz Turki, Journalist, lecturer and author based in Washington/Gulf News Fully backed by the current US administration, Tel Aviv feels entitled to trample upon the last vestiges of Palestinian rights What a long decade last year has been for the Palestinians! It was ...বিস্তারিত
Sandip Ghose/Daily O, India India has become more vulnerable to attacks. Only, the 'weapons of mass destruction' now are data and social media, which any nation can use to influence our elections. In India of the seventies, two hands haunted public imagination. One was ...বিস্তারিত
Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun/ Daily Sabah, Turkey In 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar and established an independent international fact-finding mission. The said mission was tasked with determin ...বিস্তারিত
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed : After Second World War, in 1971, Bangladesh witnessed a holocaust- an extermination of three million of Bengalis. At a meeting on 22 February 1971, the then Pakistani President General Yahya Khan is recorded as saying in fury: “Kill three million o ...বিস্তারিত
Utpal Dutta: Three scientists have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics for creating tools from light, 2018 Nobel Prize in physics, 2018 has been awarded to three scientists, including one woman, for evolving the science of lasers and forming enormously useful tool ...বিস্তারিত
Md Sharif Hasan, Commentator on international politics/BDnews24 The three key players – Russia, Iran and Turkey – had enough time to set aside their differences at the Tehran Summit. And yet the differences persist. The bottom line is that all three has certain design ...বিস্তারিত
Lorraine Finlay, Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University/The Conversation, Australia If a pregnant woman is the victim of a criminal offence that leads to the death of her unborn child, should the person responsible be charged with the murder or manslaughter of that child? T ...বিস্তারিত
