Hossen Sohel: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said it is her duty to unchain people from deprivation and a plan is underway to provide urban facilities to villagers, reports UNB. “So many years have been wasted…we have lost times from 1975-96… we didn’t see any development in those 21 years, a handful of people managed…
Reuters: School bus driver Michael Payne was renting an apartment on the 30th floor of a New York City high-rise, where the landlord’s idea of fixing broken windows was to cover them with boards. So when Payne and his wife Gail saw ads in the tabloids for brand-new houses in the Pennsylvania mountains for under…
AFP: Doing ‘deep ecology’ by any academically trained philosopher might be daunting insofar as it involves the task of conceiving environmental crisis in philosophical terms. If there is anything warranted by this task it is the intention of thinking the relationship between nature and life by way of explicating the ‘unity of the world.’ But…
Hossen Sohel: Bangladesh climbed three spots to rank at 136 among 189 countries in the latest human development index (HDI), released by the United Nations Development Programme, reports banglanews24.com. Within South Asia, Bangladesh’s HDI value is fixed at average of 0.608 for the region, with India and Pakistan being ranked 130 and 150 respectively, for…
Arab News: Malaysia’s designated prime minister-in-waiting, Anwar Ibrahim, said Saturday that he has no reason to doubt his former political nemesis will hand over the leadership position within two years as planned after sorting out deep-seated issues like corruption. Anwar and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad put aside their 20-year feud to help their four-party alliance…
Arab News: Boko Haram gunmen killed eight people when they attacked two villages in restive northeast Nigeria in an attempt to steal livestock on Friday, local militia said. The jihadists moved into Modu Ajiri and Bulama Kayiri villages in Borno state to take cattle and sheep but the villagers put up a fight to save…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : In the year 2017, Bangladesh was fortunate to see a good number of international achievements. It had achievements in IT sector as well as in medicine and medical treatment. Many of the Bangladeshis had earned global appreciation in 2017. One of the…
Sultan Muhammad Akash, Founder & CEO,Www.LawWar.Win – Right Lawyer, Right Here : Nearly a century ago with the fall of the Great Ottoman Empire, the Kurdish people have been dispersed into 4 sovereign nations, where they have had uneasy relationships with the central rulers. Throughout the 20th century, the Kurds have been marginalized and persecuted,…
NY Times: Typhoon Mangkhut struck the Philippines early Saturday, after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes to escape the 550-mile-wide storm as it roared across the Pacific. More than 12 hours after landfall, at least three deaths were reported, but there were no signs of the kind of devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a sign of repentance at a mass dedicated to victims of abuse, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington who was blamed for not doing enough to deal with pedophile priests in Pennsylvania, prostrated himself on Friday. “Our prayers are for those who were assaulted by serious abuse of the clergy and…