Bangladesh has previously chaired both the LDC Group as well as the CVF and remains a senior member of both groups. It will thus have an important role to play at COP22 in Marrakech in November.

In our lives, we try and look for social proofs and replicate other events, other practices, other lives, et al. We also try and promote ourselves, our lives, our products with valuable virility. Most of us use social media to be viral. But being viral with responsibility is a difficult task and being responsible while reporting to the public is even more challenging.

China hosted the 11th G20 summit from September 4-5, 2016 at Hangzhou for the first time since the group formally started holding

ISIS, Islamic Caliphate

Barack Obama graduates from Harvard. Mark Zuckerberg drops out of Harvard. To cover all bases in order to succeed, I graduate from BUET and University of Michigan but drop out of Berkeley.

Consider the following situation: You meet someone at a social event and within seconds you are subjected to a monologue about her posh home, luxury car, high performing kids and a doting husband.

Luck has it that this particular airline doesn't provide the option for online check-in at Dhaka Airport. I am thus relegated to

When the day is long and the night is yours alone, when you have decided you have had enough, hang on. Inspiration will come from the most unexpected sources, like two public servants, one civil, the other military. They both radiate an inner light, a generosity of spirit, a depth of character which I have not achieved. That's something to work on before I say enough.

Like language politics cannot be taught – it has to be learnt. And one thing that one must learn in politics, as much as in war, is that a weak front should not be invested in and vulnerabilities plugged.

The mode of operation and determination of the terrorist executors coupled with the savagery that surfaced during the recent

I walk to the southern part of Torrey Pines Beach in San Diego, California. Only when I thought that this part of the beach is a

Countries that have managed to keep corruption, embezzlement and fraud under control have done so by adopting a three-pronged approach: the lawyer's approach, the economist's approach and the businessman's approach. It is the first - tougher new laws and tougher enforcement of existing laws - that is usually the topic of discussion in the media and other circles.

John Kerry had listed the areas that the US government had aided Bangladesh in since its independence. But if it really wants Bangladesh to develop, the only policy that will make US' role as our development partner meaningful is a 'hand up' rather than 'handout' policy; handout is what foreign aid turns out to be in the long run.

Those claiming that Rampal will generate employment are not wrong. Not at all. But, we must ask: at what personal cost? Who will bear the cost of their health? Who will be held personally responsible?

We live in a world of instant news and communication, with its enormous

Since Britain decided to quit the EU, there has been lots of analysis about the economic fallout on what will happen to Britain and the European Union. But, what about the future of Project Europe?

In view of the unprecedented deadly extremist violence affecting the body politic, concerned citizens might be wondering how a significant number of otherwise suave and liberal educated young men could have been motivated to commit such ghoulish actions.

War remains the decisive human failure of which children are the worst victims. That was my first reaction when I saw the photo of

I jump out of my skin as the motorbike honks for me to move sideways. By reflex, I try to step aside, only to realise that there is no room but a not-so-welcoming drain. A further realisation that I am on the sidewalk (footpath) as the motorbike behind me is honking for me to give way. If food can take over the footpath with food stalls, so can motorbikes with their foot pedals. Humans, make way.

Today's piece is not remotely connected with the name of the column. But I couldn't pass up the chance of putting to paper some random thoughts about the just concluded quadrennial sports extravaganza and the performance of the organisers and the sportsmen and women in Rio.