Tariq A. Al Maeena, Saudi socio-political commentator/Gulf News While the Saudi government has taken the initiative to help accommodate low-income pilgrims, the monitoring needed to ensure strict adherence has unfortunately been missing Many people who have committed ...বিস্তারিত
Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque, Supernumerary Professor, University of Dhaka: The government behaved with the students protesting for safe roads pretty much the same way it had with the quota reformists. There is no democracy in Bangladesh, or else, there would never have been at ...বিস্তারিত
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, Bangladesh National Section, The New York Times: Recently a piece of news grabbed my attention regarding the sacrificial animal for the upcoming religious festival, Eid ul-Adha, which is the second of two Islamic festivals celebrated ...বিস্তারিত
Jonathan Power/WION, India I haven’t played cricket with Imran Khan, the newly elected prime minister of Pakistan, but I did interview him back in 2005, when only a rare foreign journalist was interested in him despite his fame as having been the world’s best crickete ...বিস্তারিত
Anjana Susarla, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University/WION news The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This was evident most recently i ...বিস্তারিত
Mohiuddin Ahmed, Author and Researcher : The Rohingya issue has become more complex and it is needed to verify if a third party is provoking it. Myanmar is now accepting the fact that the Rohingyas were subjected to rampant mass killing. At the same time, the country is it ...বিস্তারিত
BRAC Young people in Bangladesh face a precarious future, despite living in one of the world’s fastest growing economies. A third of Bangladesh’s population is 10-24 years old. Approximately ten million young people are currently unemployed or underemployed. An on- ...বিস্তারিত
Nabilah Husna, Communications manager at AWARE/Channel NewsAsia According to a survey of 809 teenage boys that AWARE published last year, nine in 10 teenage boys reported facing pressures to be “manly” through experiences of harassment, bullying, teasing, social exclu ...বিস্তারিত
Cassandra Cross/The Conversation, Australia It is easy for those of us who have ignored emails from Nigerian princes or refused to transfer money on behalf of an online love interest to scroll past stories about scams, thinking it could never be us. But so far this year, ...বিস্তারিত
A.S.M Riad Arif, SARRC Silver Jubilee Scholar, South Asian University, New Delhi : According to the recent Global index by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Dhaka is now the 2nd least Liveable city of the world. And this again gives us an opportunity to Laugh louder and bl ...বিস্তারিত