Sudhirendar Sharma One can feign ignorance but being consumers of industrialized products we are but an integral part of the destructive resource extraction that is anything but organized violence… Only after living without money for three years and having established…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Mar 27 (IPS) – For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far…
By Elise Harris Vatican City, Feb 17 (CNA/EWTN News) – On Friday Pope Francis paid a visit to Rome’s “Roma Tre” university, stressing to students the importance of dialogue, listening and integration in putting an end to the fear that…
Masum Billah For the last several years the problem of leaking questions of public examinations of all levels has cropped up and the government has denied terming it a baseless claim which is tantamount to encouraging the perpetrators to continue…
Sudhirendar Sharma Chandni Chowk may have been subsumed under the great metropolis of the modern capital city but it has held onto its charm.
Danielle Nierenberg From authors to chefs, business owners to activists, this list is a collection of changemakers in every industry working to fix inequalities and problems in the food system all over the world. Their examples have inspired movements and…
Robert J. Burrowes A recent report from Equality Now titled ‘The World’s Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic’ offered a series of recommendations for strengthened laws to deter and punish sexual violence against women and girls. However, there is substantial evidence…
Dhaka – Terming the statement of a Singapore-based security ‘expert’, Professor Rohan Gunaratna regarding the Islamic State’s(IS) link in the Holey Artisan attack, baseless propaganda, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque again claimed that there is no presence…
By Chandra Muzaffar The Malaysian government has done the right thing in keeping the channels of ommunication with the North Korean Government open. It wants an amicable resolution of the friction arising from the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, the elder…
Masum Billah In the classroom, educators exert power through the class materials they select, the learning activities they design, and the ways in which they include students in classroom discussions. Educators can exert power over students—or they can create an…
Here are the 12 best career lessons everyone should take to heart early in their careers. By Lolly Daskal President and CEO, Lead From Within If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we all make mistakes…
Basic rights always need champions, and that’s truer today than it ought to be as around the world we see an unwelcome pattern of reaction to modern complexities ranging from globalization and automation to austerity and dwindling wages. One alarming…
Paolo Mauro Washington, DC – In the 2016 American presidential election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agreed that the US economy is suffering from dilapidated infrastructure, and both called for greater investment in renovating and upgrading the country’s public capital…
Danielle Nierenberg On Tuesday, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture released Letters to a Young Farmer, a book which compiles insight from some of the most influential farmers, writers, and leaders in the food system in an anthology of…
Trent Hamm I tend to view a good life as being one that’s full of good investments. If you use your resources (money, time, energy, etc.) in a smart way, they’re going to give far more value back to you…
-By Raquib Siddiqi Responsible travel and the designation by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) of the “International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development “ are the main themes at the world’s largest travel trade fair. From 8 to 12 March…
London – Much of the world seems to be on edge. The West’s relationship with Russia, the future of NATO, the Syrian civil war and refugees, rising right-wing populism, the impact of automation, and the United Kingdom’s impending departure from…
Masum Billah Mysterious things continue happening in NCTB and more importantly they happen without any reason and things seem that they hardly bother about the people concerned and national criticism. The Education Policy 2010, free distribution of textbooks among school…
On 13 February India’s National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) issued an order to fix the ceiling prices for the two main categories of cardiac stents. The order stated that “huge unethical markups at each stage in the supply chain” resulted…
By Raquib Siddiqi It is sad to note that aviation has not only failed to keep pace with global development through up gradation of facilities, but also suffered punitive actions for poor and outdated facility and security systems. 26 years…
Masum Billah The current social setting makes some students stressed and nervous about what their fate is going to be. Will education change significantly for these students? There are many unanswered questions at the moment. Teachers of English or any…
By Cathy Breen Being stuck in traffic is daily fare in Baghdad. While checkpoints have been dramatically reduced in recent times, and the number of concrete walls appear markedly decreased, traffic jams still defy description. It doesn’t help in the…
-By Raquib Siddiqi Bangladesh tourism is now at the threshold of a new era. The country is poised to enter global ocean cruise map, ushering the new era in tourism industry.
Masum Billah Morals and values play a significant role in determining the path of an individual. It also helps shape the individual to the type of person he will be in future. Morals guide an individual to the right path…
Danielle Nierenberg Conventional agricultural practices can adversely impact biodiversity and ecosystem health, according to a recent report published in Solutions. In fact, both corporations and eaters rarely pay for the true cost of food on the environment, public health, and…
By Simeon Kerr Saudi Arabia is planning to cull billions of dollars of projects as part of its latest cost-cutting measures to narrow a gaping budget deficit and balance the books by 2020.
Abu Raihan MuammedKhalid This is a story of the most unfortunate people of our time. Their own country rejects them. The country they came in denies them. This is a story of the Rohingya refugees living in Kutupalong Refugee Camp…
By Chandra Muzaffar It is not surprising that the Davos Forum held in the middle of January 2017 chose not to examine the obscene, grotesque, ever widening economic inequalities in the world brought to its attention by Oxfam, the global…
By Dr Ramzy Baroud Long before December 28, when Secretary of State, John Kerry took the podium at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington DC to pontificate on the uncertain future of the two-state solution and the need to save…
Masum Billah With a view to enlightening people Bishwo Shahitto Kendra launched its journey thirty-nine years back in the country and its ‘ book reading programme’ has now reached twenty lakh students of 12 thousand educational institutions. Kudos to Bishwo…