M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the killers, money-launderers and interest-takers have become united against the Awami League government to destroy the country.“These characters will plunder national wealth, destroy the country and become cohorts of the anti-liberation forces if they come to power. So the people will have to think about them,”…
M Humayun Kabir: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said Jatiya Oikya Prokriya, the new political alliance, will not last long. He was talking to journalists after inaugurating a hotel in Cox’s Bazar’s Kolatoli area yesterday morning, reports Dhaka Tribune. “Awami League’s development has frustrated BNP. So, they are saying off-track things which we…
Nisha Bellinger, Assistant professor of political science at Boise State University /Channel NewsAsia Having more female leaders in politics won’t solve violence against women or other gender issues, but it can better protect vulnerable women from abuse, says one observer. India is the most dangerous country for sexual violence against women, according to the Thomson…
Brigette Hyacinth, Bestselling author, and an International Keynote Speaker on Leadership/Linked In A while back I was having lunch at a food court. The woman in the table next to me gets a phone call and then starts to cry. She is trying hard to stop but there was no holding back those tears. I…
John Harris, Guardian columnist/ Aljazeera In among all the noise about Brexit and Donald Trump, there’s a remarkable sound: a great deal of the free-market, laissez-faire ideas that have dominated the last four decades being criticised and contested, perhaps as never before. In the US, the fallout from the election of 2016 has fed into…
Kabir Humayun: Two suspects in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case will file “no-confidence” motions against the judge fearing that they will not get justice. Lawyers Aminul Islam and Md Akhtaruzzaman, counsels of suspects Ziaul Islam Munna and Monirul Islam Khan, informed Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman about the decision yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. They sought adjournment of…
Phys.org: A pair of robot rovers have landed on an asteroid and begun a survey, Japan’s space agency said Saturday, as it conducts a mission aiming to shed light on the origins of the solar system. The rover mission marks the world’s first moving, robotic observation of an asteroid surface, according to the Japan Aerospace…
Hossen Sohel: President Trump’s additional $200 billion tariffs on Chinese goods began to take effect yesterday as the trade war between the two economic powers continued to escalate, reports news channel WION. China has decided to retaliate with $60 billion in tariffs on American goods totalling $110 billion with Trump administration’s tariffs set to bite…
M Humayun Kabir: Charles Kao, a Nobel Prize winner dubbed the “father of fiber optics”, died at the age of 84 on Sunday. Before he passed away, Kao battled Alzheimer’s disease for years, reports China Daily. Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam said Professor Kao pioneered in the development and…
EurekAlert: The local LGBT community reports twice the number of poor mental health days as the general population of Richmond and Columbia Counties, and those who identified as transgender report twice that, according to a health needs assessment conducted by faculty and students at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Area LGBT individuals…