By Joseph Chamie U N, Feb (IPS) – As the international community marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, one question worthy of some reflection is: Is world population better or worse off demographically since the…
Category: Life
Arafat’s body arrives Tuesday, 3-day Bnp mourning, burrial in Dhaka
The mortal remains of Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of late President Ziaur Rahman and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, will be brought to Dhaka on Tuesday. According to a BNP leader in Malaysia the body of Koko will be…
Khaleda thanks hasina for her gesture to share grief
Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Saturday night thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for expressing her sympathy at the sudden death of Arafat Rahman Koko. Khaleda’s press secretasry Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel said this to journalists at Khaleda Zia’s office…
Khaleda’s second son Arafat Rahman passes away in Malaysia
Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of late president Ziaur Rahman and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, died in Malaysia on Saturday. He was 45. “Yes, he died…we’re yet to know the details of his death,” BNP chairperson’s special assistant Shimul…
100 things we didn’t know last year – BBC
Interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from daily news stories and the Magazine picks out such snippets for its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. Here’s an almanac of the best of 2014.
Tragic end of a decent man in Bangladesh journalism
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The sad demise of eminent journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury on Saturday night has come as a shock to all not only because of the suddenness with which the end came to the glorious career of a gentleman…
25 years after rights convention, children still need more protection
Analysis by Susan Bissell United Nations – Next week marks 25 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a historic commitment to children and the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history. The…
Investigating rape and murder in South Sudan’s Bentiu
The BBC’s Alastair Leithead travels to South Sudan’s oil hub of Bentiu to investigate reports of rape and murder in one of the worst-affected areas of the nation’s brutal conflict.
Monica Lewinsky opens up on affair with Clinton
Washington — Monica Lewinsky says there’s no question her boss — Bill Clinton — “took advantage” of her when he was president.
China corruption campaign: On Zhou Yongkang’s trail
A question all of China is asking but I didn’t expect an elderly man to stop by the pond in Zhou’s home village and press me for answers.
‘Friendly’ drone on dog leash takes off
By Jane Wakefield But there are strict rules about their usage, which has led some to come up with innovative ways to fly such vehicles more safely. “I’m using a dog leash for a small dog,” says roboticist Sergei Lupashin…
Business of business isn’t ‘just’ to do business
By Gajanan Khergamker Bound by law to be ‘socially responsible’, following the new Companies Act 2013 that makes CSR mandatory, there’s a huge sense of dissent among Corporates and expectedly so.
Using ICT to protect the landscape of Europe
How can both policy makers and citizens make better use of ICT in order to protect Europe’s landscapes? This is the question posed by E-CLIC, an innovative EU-funded project designed to encourage greater citizen involvement in the protection of nature.
De-escalation in Ukraine as seen by Joe Biden
By Nikolay Bobkin According to the White House briefing, the Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine was to demonstrate the support of Ukraine by the United States.
Attitudes towards life are changing: 60 is the new 50
Money matters: Across the world, people of different generations are worried about their financial well-being in retirement.
Pope Francis asks forgiveness for child abuse by clergy
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the “evil” damage to children caused by sexual abusers in the clergy.
China and India: River wars in the Himalayas
Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s admission in February that the Indian government has asked its Ministry of Water Resources to clarify whether the Chinese dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo (called Brahmaputra in India) are run-of-the-river type or storage dams…
Qatar likely to reform controversial labour system
Qatar is preparing a radical overhaul of its controversialkafala or labour sponsorship system in response to mounting criticism that threatens reputation capital it hopes to gain from hosting the 2022 World Cup.
Nose can detect one trillion odours
Until now, the long-held belief was that we can sniff out about 10,000 smells.
Does Having Children Make People Happier?
Does parenthood suck the joy out of life, or is it the key to happiness? It looks like it’s a draw: People with children in the home are about as satisfied with their lives as those who don’t have kids…
Varosha: The Ghost resort
Welcome to Varosha, the Mediterranean’s best kept secret.
Kenyan ‘corpse’ wakes up in Naivasha morgue
Kenyan authorities have launched an investigation into how a man declared dead in a hospital woke up alive in its morgue the next day. Shocked mortuary workers at Naivasha hospital ran away when the body stirred and was seen to…
US remembers Kennedy 50 years after assassination
The US is marking 50 years since President John F Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas.
Can we reverse migratory flows to urban centres?
By Jayshree Sengupta Recently Sonia Gandhi reportedly expressed her unhappiness at the steady migration flows from rural areas to urban centres despite the MNREGA scheme which guarantees 100 days of paid work to any member of a rural family.
Make Rohingya Muslims citizens: UN asks Myanmar
United Nations — The General Assembly’s human rights committee passed a resolution urging Myanmar to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to citizenship and to crack down on Buddhist violence against them and other Muslims in the southeast Asian…
Nepal voting ends for new Constituent Assembly
Voting has ended in Nepal which is electing a new assembly to write a long-delayed constitution.
Russia’s spying craze
By Andrei Soldatov It came as a shock to many observers when VimpelCom, one of Russia’s largest telecommunications companies, publicly criticized the government’s plans to legalize the interception of telephone and e-mail communications.
It’s not just winter, it’s a new ice age
By Alan Caruba When you consider that a bunch of global warming propagandists, the 19th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions has been meeting in Warsaw this month are still claiming that…
Renewable energy can pave the path to peace
By Hélène Connor-Lajambe The United Nations and other world agencies are geographically global in scope, but seldom seem able to work together on the same issue, however crucial it is, even when deep misery or armed conflicts ensue.
African polygamy: Past and present
By James Fenske Polygamy and poverty are both widespread in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Several arguments have been made suggesting this correlation is causal.