This was a historic occasion as the Paris Agreement, which was negotiated and agreed upon last year at COP21 in Paris, was then ratified by over a hundred countries in record speed and came into force on November 4, with the first meeting of the Parties held in Marrakech on November 15.

The BGMEA building has been termed a "cancer". Today, it is almost symbolic to bring the BGMEA building down.

Will he [Donald Trump] carry out all the threats he made during the campaign? What will he do for the powerless groups in the American society? That is something we shall have to wait and see.

It is encouraging to note that the National Income Tax Fair is becoming increasingly useful and popular among ordinary tax payers in Bangladesh.

Media reports have it that the Supreme Court has issued a 19 point guideline for police, magistrates and judges to stop arbitrary arrests on suspicion and torturing arrestees on remand.

Worldwide, there is an increasing trend of decreasing privacy for the mass of the people that, I believe, we should all be worried about.

The ultra sonogram couldn't tell if it would be a boy or a girl. After a grueling 18 months of labour pain, America delivers a golden (haired) boy.

Now that the sickening charade of his campaign is over, it is a good time to ask what exactly he would be like as the President of the United States. Will his presidency be like his campaign?

It was beyond the imagination, even of the many diehard 'Trumpians' who, reportedly, were invoking a miracle for a Trump win.

The morning of last Monday in Marrakech, Laurent Fabius, the Environment Minister of France, who was president of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) since last December, handed over the presidency to Hakima El Haite, the Environment Minister of Morocco. She has now taken over as President of COP22 here in Marrakech.

It is perhaps the greatest environmental love story of all. Saalumarada Thimmakka, a day labourer and Bekal Chikkayya, a cattle herder, both from Hulikal village in Bangalore district, defying all the taunts from society for being childless, decided to plant trees and treat them like their children.

The incident is a serious challenge to Suu Kyi's fledgling democracy as she tries to establish civilian authority over the powerful military. The military continues to ignore Suu Kyi's call to abide by the rule of law and respect human rights.

Even the greatest cynic would agree that the attacks on the minority Hindu population and their properties and places of worship, though intermittent, have been a blight on the democratic and secular credentials of Bangladeshi polity.

If the government can successfully address its own issues, it can, and should make a strong case at the conference to the rest of the world for greater compensations from developed countries and other international donors, rather than loans to deal with issues for which, Bangladesh, in all honesty, is least responsible, if at all.

The revolution of the Power Couple (PC) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gets computers to become Personal Computers (PC).

The macabre assassination of four national leaders, revered as the founding fathers of our democratic republic, on November 3, 1975 shall continue to haunt the nation for a painfully long time.

The members of Parliament from Bangladesh were well represented in Geneva at the IPU meeting and were quite vocal in raising their voices at the global level. They now have to be equally active at the national level through their actions in Parliament.

Strangely, we are not where we used to be anymore. Students who used to steer movements against tyranny have themselves become tyrants.

The American Federal Election Commission (FEC) has already started the Presidential Election process, which will culminate on November 8, 2016.

The stereotypical mindset of even the highly educated section of the society hold the view that girls should maintain so-called 'decency' in their outfits and movements. If that is so, then what type of indecency can a five-year-old girl display in her clothes and demeanour? Are girls who wear hijabs spared by these monstrous men?