Alberto Salvo, Associate professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore/ Today Online News reports of a study I authored, published in Nature Communications last month, have put the spotlight on how different segments of society may be affected by climate change. What can we infer from…
Hal Brands,Bloomberg Opinion columnist/Bloomberg Russia and China are making moves on America’s illiberal allies. Sometimes a handshake can mean quite a lot. Richard Nixon’s outstretched hand to Zhou Enlai in 1972 marked the end of a quarter-century of Chinese-American estrangement. The decidedly bro-ey handshake between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman at…
BBC It is likely to be the most critical and controversial report on climate change in recent years. Leading scientists are meeting in South Korea this week to see if global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5C this century. The world has already passed one degree of warming as carbon emissions…
Kamrun Nahar, Journalist, The Financial Express : Bangladesh garnered widespread international media attention in the last one year for giving shelter to Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya minorities are forced to be stateless and persecuted by the Myanmar government and army. As a result, Bangladesh now has the largest refugee camp in the world. In fact,…
Kabir Humayun: At least six people were killed and eight others injured after a cattle truck crashed into a microbus on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway near Feni. Two of the dead are children and three are women. All of them are members of the same family, said Muhuriganj Highway Police Outpost Sub Inspector Md Mahbub Alam,…
BSS Members of the Chittagong Metropolitan police in a raid arrested two men for their alleged involvement in peddling drugs from city’s Eidgah area in Halishahor thana on Tuesday night. They also seized 850 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession. The arrestees were identified as Nur Hossain, 28 and Nazrul Islam, 29, hailed from…
Sofian Khan: With dem-and of immediate release of BNP chief Khaleda Zia, a sudden procession was carried out by the party leaders and activists, led by its Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. The procession was brought out in Kalyanpur of the capital during the wee hours yesterday. According to BNP Central Executive Committee member…
Marilyn Thipthorpe We all have people in our lives who we’d just rather not interact with – loudmouthed misogynists, shrill gossips, ignorant racists, hurtful name-callers – whatever type of person makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The most obvious course of action is to avoid these irritating people altogether. What…
Sabah Mannan Telling the nation that he will preside over the ruling party congress in December, Zimbabwe’s 37 year long President Robert Mugabe refused to resign and vowed to carry on as head of state despite being officially stripped of leadership by his own party, Zanu-PF. However, Zanu-PF officials alleged that Mugabe would face impeachment…
Reuters: President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday he had decided to dilute unpopular draft legislation to reform the pension system which has hurt his popularity, but said serious demographic challenges meant some kind of reform was necessary. Addressing the nation on television, Putin said the retirement age for women should be raised by five…