Daryl Adair/ The Conversation: When it rains, it pours. Make hay while the sun shines. Save for a rainy day. Come rain or shine. The English language is overflowing with phrases about the weather, especially rain, or the lack of it. Fascination with the weather seems embe ...বিস্তারিত
Shafiqul Alam / Bureau Chief at AFP News Agency If you have visited the 34 camps where an estimsted 850,000 Rohingya live in thousands of bamboo and tarpaulin made shelters in an extremely congested conditions, you would surely know that these are very flammable objects whi ...বিস্তারিত
Shafiqul Alam, Bureau Chief at AFP News Agency Muzaffar Alam is undoubtedly the best Mughal historian of our time. He grew up in North India and learnt Persian in his early years. Now he is a top history professor at University of Chicago with his students spreading all ove ...বিস্তারিত
Shafiqul Alam, Bureau Chief at AFP News Agency As a regular traveller to my village in Magura, I would drive at least 60 kilometres through the central district of Faridpur. Even a few of years ago the road from the Padma river station of Goalundo to Faridpur would be lined ...বিস্তারিত
What's the International Women's Day 2022 theme? The campaign theme for International Women's Day 2022 is #BreakTheBias. Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. Knowing that bias exists isn't enough. Action is needed to level the ...বিস্তারিত
Simon Tisdall/ The Guardian: Can Ukraine weaponise time? As long as the will to fight exists, the country’s soldiers and citizens can hope to wear down, even to repulse, the Russian invaders. But their dilemma is a terrible one. As Vladimir Putin’s bombardments grow m ...বিস্তারিত
Al Jazeera: Days after Russia sent troops into neighbouring Ukraine, triggering anti-war protests that have resulted in thousands of arrests and prompting public figures to speak out against the invasion, rumours began spreading that President Vladimir Putin was planning ...বিস্তারিত
Ambassador Muhammad Zamir Over the past decade energy security has emerged as one of the most critical issues within the South Asia region. Careful monitoring has indicated that disruption of power and other forms of energy supply are at times resulting in serious crises af ...বিস্তারিত
Shafiqul Alam/ Bureau Chief at AFP News Agency: [2] "Muslin weaving is all about supreme concentration. It is about controlling your mind. The moment you lose concentration, you can tear up this finest of yarns. Once you lose concentration, you make a false step in the Sari ...বিস্তারিত
Shafiqul Alam / Bureau Chief at AFP News Agency Had a great conversation with Pierre-Allain Baud, a French scholar and the writer of the much acclaimed biography of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Professor Baud has been visiting Bangladesh as part of his works on Sufi and folk song ...বিস্তারিত