Tafi Mhaka, Johannesburg-based social and political commentator/Aljazeera Foreign governments ignoring rights abuses to secure economic benefit in Zimbabwe will only enable oppression. On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a rare achievement, 64-year-old freedom fighter Khitindra Chandra Boishya swam 186 kilometers of the Bhogai River, making it a new Guinness World Record. Khitindra started the swimming jumping off into the river from the west side of a bridge in Nalitabari upazila headquarters at 7am on Monday, reports UNB. Hailing from Zahangir…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a landmark ruling, India’s Supreme Court yesterday struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex at the centre of years of legal battles. “The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra said while delivering the landmark verdict, reports AFP. Section 377 of the Indian…
Reuters: Thousands of Thais feasted royally in the capital on Thursday to celebrate the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave, a dramatic and highly dangerous mission that gripped the world for more than two weeks. The team were guests of honor at a government-sponsored dinner to thank those involved…
Al Arabiya: France’s top military official said on Thursday his forces were prepared to carry out strikes on Syrian targets if chemical weapons were used in an expected government offensive to retake the northern province of Idlib. Speaking to a small group of reporters, Armed Forces Chief Francois Lecointre said he expected the final pockets…
Mir Nasir Hossain, Former President, FBCCI: The lower the lending rate, the better it is for investment. The lower lending rate has a positive impact on investment. Banking sector is not the only weapon to boost investment; many other factors also influence investment. Investment gets a boost with the lower lending rate. Investment is dependent…
BSS Rumpa Islam recently got a job at a multi-national company as an executive officer after obtaining MBA degree from the Finance and Banking Department of a private university. On the first day of her job, many colleagues congratulated her. One of them told her to see their company’s managing director (MD) at his room…
Daniel Gros, Director of the Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies/Project Syndicate Even as the flow of refugees into Europe dwindles, anti-immigrant sentiment continues to rise, and is now being expressed violently in some areas. Economic factors probably play an important role, but to understand opposition to immigration also requires taking evolutionary psychology into account….
Desk Report: More than 2,000 school dropouts, including 1,120 girls and 30 transgender, were given technical skill development training for making them worthy citizens in the city, reports Financial Express. BRAC, an international development organisation based in Bangladesh, under its ‘Skill Development Programme’ provided the training on different need-based trades and facilitated their post-training job…
BBC: Doctors are being told to adopt a new policy of writing letters that are easier for patients to understand. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says too often correspondence contains complex medical jargon rather than plain and simple English. Using the phrase “twice daily” to explain the dosing of a medicine is better than…