In a scenario where the police have not been able to adequately transform it and the political class of the country is not

In 1977, following the late Yasser Arafat's speech at the United Nations General Assembly on November 13, 1974, where he

The son of a wealthy landowner, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926. A towering figure during the Cuban

Media bashing is nothing new in our democracy. Whenever media focus corruption in the government administration or wrongdoings of ministers, MPs or any politicians, media is blamed for tarnishing their images. But little corrective measure is taken following the media reports.

Selina Hayat Ivy won the initial battle in her own house-Awami League. She obtained party ticket in the Naryanganj City Corporation election by defeating Shamim Osman, local AL leader and infamous for many controversies in Narayanganj power politics.

Khaleda Zia's proposal for forming new Election Commission on the basis of consensus among political parties sounds good, but seems unrealistic in the current confrontational culture in politics. The BNP chief took a few weeks to come up with a set of proposals including some for strengthening the EC. But ruling Awami League took no time to reject the proposals as a whole.

Seventy six people in India died last year while taking selfies, putting the country at the top of the ranking for selfie related deaths, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India. Pakistan comes a distant second with the number of deaths at nine. The authors of the study blamed people’s desire for more “likes” and comments on social media for driving increasingly risky selfie-taking.

Asian journalists attending Asia News Network workshop in Singapore have worried about Donald Trump's victory in US presidency election who has called for stopping Muslims from entering the United States.

Authoritarian regimes and dictators around the world must feel vindicated by the just concluded presidential race in the United States, the one-time champion of liberal democracy that had the habit of exporting, if not imposing, its political system and the accompanying values to the rest of the world.

In what can only be described as an absurd, uninformed, and demeaning move, the federal government of Pakistan has decided to demand its “outstanding amount” of Rs 15.25 billion from Bangladesh and India.

Whenever an attack was carried out on a minority community people in past there was no short of sympathetic words to victims and promises by the government policymakers: stern action would be taken against perpetrators regardless of the political affiliation. But no exemplary action was finally taken in almost cases. All the words turned into mere rhetoric. Promises were made to be broken.

People with disabilities can travel the world. All it takes is some smart planning.

Those who wish to see the US continue to be the pre-eminent power must wish President-elect Trump success in making America great again.

“We were told by police that we are terrorists and were accused in two cases… This is very unfortunate that the Santals who tried to save their belongings have now become terrorists,” said Choron Soren, undergoing treatment at Rangpur Medical College Hospital, handcuffed. Terrorist! What a horrible, scary word, with all its connotations of suicide bombings and extremist attacks.

Millions of Americans are now wondering can Hillary Clinton still win the presidency. The only way is: a stunning surprise on December 19 and if more than two dozens presidential electors on that day do not cast their votes to formally elect Trump as the next president and vote for Clinton.

It is a mindboggling mystery how, after such a hue and cry over the vicious attacks on homes, property and temples of Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar, unknown miscreants have had the audacity to carry out another arson attack – this time the target was on Nasirnagar’s Upazila Parishad’s Vice Chairman who is Hindu and who protested against the October 30 mayhem.

Can we imagine the extent to which we are magnifying the consequences of allowing uninterrupted faulty placements of power and cable lines?

Separation of judiciary from the executive organs of the State was announced as one of the fundamental principles of the State policy in Article 22 of the new constitution of Independent Bangladesh.

No matter how apathetic the larger part of our society is about violence against women, very few citizens of this country (except of course pedophiles who commit the crimes) will not be disgusted and horrified when little children are sexually abused and tortured.

In real sense, the presidency is a ceremonial office with no effective power, as according to article 55 (2) the executive power of the country is exercised by or on the authority of the prime minister. So, portraying the powerless president as powerful in line of defence by the ministers against their opponents is only misleading.