Daily O, India This is the first time a woman would sport a hijab in the finals of the beauty pageant. The finals of Miss England slated for later this week will see a 20-year-old woman walking the ramp in hijab for the first time in its history.While women have walked down the ramp sporting…
Desk Report: The government has set up a temporary court at the old Dhaka central jail to hold the trial of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three others in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. Deputy Commissioner (DC) (prosecution) Anisur Rahman yesterday confirmed the development, reports Daily Star. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Judge…
Desk Report: The government on Monday awarded 178 business persons CIP (commercially important person) cards for the year 2015 for their outstanding performances in export and trade. Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed handed over the CIP cards to the business persons at an event held at the Radisson Hotel in Dhaka. Out of the 178 business…
Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham & Talat Farooq, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham)/WION News “I often wonder if the drone will appear again and linger there forever like the all-seeing eye of God,” says Saifullah Dawar, 65, as he looks up at the bright blue sky over Pakistan’s tribal agency…
Sayeed Muhammad: The flood-affected south Indian state of Kerala has declared a health alert after 11 people died of leptospirosis or rat fever in the last two days. The government asked everyone who came into contact with flood waters to take medication as a precautionary measure to avoid an epidemic. Health officials in the state…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: Memories of September keep coming back. There was September 1973 in Chile, when the country’s armed forces in collusion with America’s Central Intelligence Agency put paid to the socialist government of President Salvador Allende and pushed Chile into a long Pinochet-era darkness. And then came, many years after,…
Desk Report: The central bank of Bangladesh has taken initiatives to expedite the flow of inward remittances from Japan and South Korea, officials said. Under the latest moves, the Bangladesh Bank is giving approval to the interested commercial banks for setting up more drawing arrangements with money transfer companies in the two countries. Some local…
Karlos Zurutuza, OZY author//OZY.com Baloch pro-independence leader Hyrbyair Marri discusses how the US president can foster positive change in his region. Hyrbyair Marri, the fifth son of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, a former national leader and head of one of the largest Baloch tribes in Pakistan, was elected in 1996 to the Provincial Assembly of…
ABC News: Once upon a time, in 2015, a writer in San Francisco named Michelle Tea got the idea for “Drag Queen Story Hour”: men in full drag reading children’s books to kids and parents in programs aimed at providing “positive and unabashedly queer role models.” Since then, Drag Queen Story Hours have been held at…
Reuters: A US service member was killed and another wounded in an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement. The service member, who has not been identified, was the sixth American to be killed in Afghanistan this year. The incident came two months after a…