Why the Muslim world must protect the Rohingya

    Hafed Al-Ghwell, Non-resident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Institute at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies/ Arab News The Rohingya refugee crisis stunned the world when the first reports emerged of widespread ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state in Myanmar. Each new report was more alarming than the last, with stories of…

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      Three possibilities

      Cyril Almeida /Dawn, Pakistan FORGET the silliness about profound change and marvellousness. This is the real world and the real world, our world, is about fighting tooth and nail and maybe emerging bloodied but not broken. There have been three possible versions of Imran. One version is already dead, two possibilities remain — and together…

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        Where to from here, dear friends?

        M. Sanjeeb Hossain, Commonwealth Scholar and Sessional Tutor at the Warwick Law School/BDnews24 I do not think the school going kids of Bangladesh took control of the streets to topple the government as has been portrayed by some people. It was not about that, rather it was about a very legitimate demand for safer roads,…

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          Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85

          Abrar Hussain: Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 85, his family said. Sir Vidia, born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including ‘A Bend in the River’ and his masterpiece, ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called…

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            170 houses gutted in Bandarban fire

            UNB: At least 170 houses were gutted in a fire that broke out at Maddampara in Sadar upazila on Saturday. the fire originated from the kitchen of a house around 12 pm and it soon engulfed the adjoining ones. Three fire-fighting units and locals with the help of police and army brought the fire under…

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              Day after tomorrow is World Lizard Day

              Desk Report: World Lizard Day is celebrated on August 14 of every year. World Lizard Day is all about celebrating the Lizard all over the day. There are nearly 5600 species of Lizards alive today, and many of them are threatened species, with habitat loss and predation by non-native species like dogs and cats being…

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