Wajahat Qazi/WION news The cliché that “there are no permanent friends or enemies in international politics” holds a searing resonance and echo in the contemporary times. Even though not very significant , from and the “ grand chessboard” view and perspective of politics, the impermanence of friends and enemies in politics might be best encapsulated…
John Harris, Guardian columnist/The Guardian,UK Squeezed between Brexiteer and Corbynite tribes, a true national conversation seems impossible. But there is a way forward The autumn is coming, though it might be better to adopt American English, and think of it as the fall: out of the languid, heady days of summer, and back into the…
Alastair Sloan/Middle East Monitor It is sometimes hard to see why the war in Syria gets so much coverage in Britain, while the war in Yemen is all but ignored; it feels like a niche topic restricted to hard-core Middle East watchers. In reality, though, events in Yemen strike at the heart of Britain’s relationship…
Amulya Ganguli/Daily Sabah, Turkey ower and politics in Pakistan have always been an intricate affair crisscrossing through the political sphere of parliament and making their way right across the institutional sphere dominated by the country’s strong military and a coming of age judiciary. Where the political history of Pakistan has recorded coup d’état’s derailing the…
BSS The name of Sajeda Akhter, an intermediate student of Barguna Government College, is now stand for bravery as she thwarted 107 child marriages risking her life. After being saddened with plights of females, who got married in their childhood, Sajeda has decided her destination to change the society with stopping such unwanted marriages. Sajeda,…
(from page 1) Some lost children to crocodiles. Development and government workers often refer to them as the “tiger widows,” highlighting their plight after the loss of their families’ primary breadwinners. The calm of the forest and the gentle evening sun created an atmosphere so peaceful that dangers as severe as the ones I was…
Justin Higginbottom /Ozy.com Diving for pearls was a man’s job — but everything else fell to the women. On the Bu Maher shore of Muharraq, in the former capital of Bahrain, women and children gather to bid farewell to the men in their community. A steady beat of drums fills the air, and women’s voices…
Bjorn Lomborg/New York Post When a “solution” to a problem causes more damage than the problem, policymaking has gone awry. That’s where we often find ourselves with global warming today. Activist organizations like Worldwatch argue that higher temperatures will make more people hungry, so drastic carbon cuts are needed. But a comprehensive new study published…
Desk Report: Food scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have given okara – the residue from the production of soy milk and tofu and is usually discarded – a new lease of life by turning it into a refreshing drink that contains live probiotics, dietary fiber, free isoflavones and amino acids. By encapsulating…
Big Think: For nearly four billion years, Earth and the Moon have been inseparable as they’ve journeyed together through the cosmic void. It’s our only permanent satellite we’ll ever know. But new research has unearthed (…unmooned?) evidence that our planet occasionally captures “mini-moons” every once in a while. These tiny asteroids zoom around our planet…