Sayeed Muhammad: BNP has alleged that leaders and activists of the party and its front and associate organisations had been arrested indiscriminately across the country in a week under cases filed under special law. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the allegation at a press briefing at the party’s central office in…
Reader’s Digest: It’s easy to dismiss mental health issues as being “all in your head.” Here’s why that’s not just unfair, but also counterproductive and even dangerous. Mental illness isn’t real: Because the scars left by a mental illness are invisible from the outside, many people question the legitimacy of mental health disorders. “Not only…
Nazry Bahrawi, Literary and cultural critic at Singapore University of Technology and Design/ Aljazeera While Chu’s film is celebrated as a diversity win in the West, in the East it’s seen as more of the same Western gaze. The blockbuster rom-com, Crazy Rich Asians, has earned much praise from critics and millions at the box…
Theresa May,Prime Minister of Britain/ Gulf News The coming months will be critical in shaping the future of our country [Britain] and I am clear about my mission. This government will fulfil the democratic decision of the British people by ensuring that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union (EU) on March 29 next year…
Peter Apps, Reuters global affairs columnist/ Channel NewsAsia If the Afghan government can win its current battle, the war may finally begin to show tentative signs of success, says one observer. On the streets of the city of Ghazni, Afghan troops and Taliban fighters battled for the future of Afghanistan. It was a savage fight….
Md. Sazedul Islam, Author & Journalist Women are making essential contributions to our agriculture and rural economy. Rural women often manage complex households. Their activities typically include producing agricultural crops, tending animals, processing and preparing food. Many of these activities are not defined as “economically active employment” in national accounts but they are essential to…
Md Sharif Hasanis, Commentator on international politics/BDnews24 More than four million people, nearly the population of Croatia, will no longer be Indian citizens, according to the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The decision was made by the state government of Assam recently when it announced its citizen list. This exercise has been conducted for the…
Seth Ferranti//OZY.com This Prussian baroness wrote erotic poetry and mainlined morphine until Nazis took exception to her flair for decadence. Baron Heinrich von Puttkamer was dying of pneumonia. As the Prussian noble and high-ranking army officer struggled to draw his last, ragged breaths in the late summer of 1914, the attending physician injected him with…
John Lloyd/ Reuters When the pope is given a cool, even combative, welcome in the Republic of Ireland, the Roman Catholic Church is in trouble. The country had been – from its founding as the Irish Free State in the early 1920s after a violent break with the United Kingdom – deeply influenced by Catholic…
Desk Report: Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia has suspended its two staff allegedly for torturing domestic help Runa Laila, reports Daily Observer. The embassy took the decision following reports on repression on the victim published in different print and electronic media in the country. The suspended are legal assistants Md Lokman and Fahad Islam, said…