AP A historic renovation of the Church of the Nativity is lifting spirits in the biblical town of Bethlehem ahead of Christmas, offering visitors a look at ancient mosaics and columns that have been restored to their original glory for the first time in 600 years. City officials hope the renovation at the traditional birthplace…
Éloi Laurent, Senior research fellow at the Sciences Po Centre for Economic Research (OFCE)/Project Syndicate On the 40th anniversary of China’s great “opening up” under Deng Xiaoping, its leaders deserve praise for lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and surpassing the United States as the world’s largest economy. But China’s experience has…
Sayeed Muhammad: Khurshid Alam says he pulls 17-hour shifts three days a week driving a private bus in Dhaka, where tens of thousands of students held angry protests for over a week demanding an end to rash driving that killed two teenagers late last month. The government has moved swiftly to defuse the protests that…
Eshan Maitra For the first time astronomers were successful in identifying a Binary Star System of Hyper-Velocity. Also experts are saying, it came from a different galaxy! It was never originated in our galaxy! On the top of that, it has been disproving many of the modern physics theories. It has already disproved the hypothesis…
DOT Desk ‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’, a docu-drama based on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is all set for its world television (TV) premiere on December 15, reports The Independent. Three prominent channels of the country, Channel i, Maasranga TV and GTV will telecast the docu-drama at 3pm…
Khaled Ahmed/ The Indian Express SAARC holds the key to South Asia’s economic integration. Imran Khan earned a lot of popular support in Pakistan by opening up the Kartarpur Sahib gurudwara to Sikh yatris from across the border with India. He talked of “peace and trade” and was hailed by the man in the street….
Sofian Khan: The Sup-reme Court (SC) will deliver its verdict on the two appeals against the High Court (HC) bail order for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The verdict was originally supposed to come yesterday till Attorney General Mahbubey Alam delayed by a day after coming up with some more…
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana’s capital, Accra. University of Ghana lecturers began a petition for its removal shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee. The petition said Gandhi was “racist” and African heroes should be…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Indian’s Finance Minister Piyush Goyal yesterday rolled out his government’s last budget before this year’s national elections, announcing no tax on income up to Rs 5 lakh, a Rs 75,000 crore assured income scheme for small farmers and a mega pension scheme for workers in the unorganised sector. The moves are…