M Zahidul Haque Sher-E-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) is situated in the heart of the capital city-Dhaka. It was established as the Bengal Agricultural Institute in 1938 by the then Chief Minister of Bengal, Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Haq. Since its…
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that he would allow exceptions to let some undocumented immigrants to stay in the US, vowing he wouldn’t grant them citizenship but telling Fox News, “there’s no amnesty, but we work with them.” For…
by Dan Primack There has been a lot of talk this month about The Clinton Foundation, but did you know that the organization has a private equity fund? Or at least that it did? Or that it still does? Again,…
Mahfuzur Rahman When I took up journalism as my career after my university over two decades back, I used to hear one of my former senior colleagues to say, ‘Journalism is a job of mediocre, but it requires devotion’. One…
Arup Barua Young people enjoy a critical junction of human lives, where the transition from childhood to adulthood takes place. This phase goes beyond physical transformation rather a set of transformation which entails biological, psychological, socio-cultural and political adaptation. Age…
Mahfuzur Rahman Journalists always have to walk rough paths, no matter where they work. They face harassments even in sophisticated societies in one way or the other by dubious elements. They first want to buy journalists and then resort to…
Sean B. Carroll Chevy Chase, Maryland – Picture this. It is 1966. You are standing in a government office in Washington, DC, watching a uniformed official tell a man in business attire, “Your mission is to eradicate an enemy that…
Paul Hofheinz Brussels – At the COP21 conference in Paris last December, world leaders made a binding pledge to set national targets, including energy-efficiency benchmarks, for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Now, the European Commission is nearing a moment of truth: Will…
There’s no doubt that Donald Trump has said many things that would have been political suicide for any other Republican candidate. And almost every time he made one of these shocking statements, political analysts on both the left and the…
Bernie Sanders supporters were disappointed as he lent his total support to Hillary Clinton as the nominee of the Democratic Party in the presidential election. They thought Bernie sacrificed the political revolution he talked about during the primaries in the…
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa The most fundamental question every human being at least one time in life will ask himself/herself is – ‘what is the meaning of the life?’ There is no fixed answer to this question but in fact, the…
Asia-Europe People’s Forum 11 Statement presented at the Opening of 11th ASEM Summit at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 15 July urged the leaders of the group to pursue multipolar, inclusive and ecologically sustainable world. The statement said, ‘For 20 years, the…
Washingon, D.C. – The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) announces that it will conduct the first global survey on the adoption of new technologies in news media. While the disruptions in today’s newsrooms have been widely chronicled, this study will…
Sudhirendar Sharma Let me be honest that I was not ready to encounter upfront what I had only read and heard in the recent past. A light tremor shook me when Peter introduced me to Paul, his ‘husband’, and he…
By Chandra Muzaffar The month of Ramadan witnessed unspeakable carnage in three Muslim cities in three different countries. On 28 June 2016, 41 people, both locals and foreigners were killed in shootings and suicide bombings at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport.…
Dhaka (UNB) – Parents of Nibras Islam, one of the Gulshan terrorist attackers, on Wednesday apologised to the nation, all the people in the world and the bereaved family members who lost their near and dear ones in Bangladesh’s worst…
Surprise has turned to shock and utter confusion for many in the UK a week after the British voted to leave the EU. DW’s Birgit Maass lives in London and describes her case of the “Brexit blues.” This is the…
The American Embassy, including consular section and the American Center, will remain closed on Sunday and Monday in observance of Shab-e-Qadr and U.S. Independence Day respectively. The Embassy will also remain closed on Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. Shab-e-Qadr…
By Asad Ismi The Latin American revolution seemed unstoppable until recently. From El Savador in the north to Argentina in the south, leftists elected since 1998 have implemented the greatest redistribution of wealth in the region’s history, providing millions of…
By Rev. John Dear Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94, just a week shy…
By Lyndal Rowlands UN (IPS) – Boats carrying refugees and boats carrying aid supplies will be on the agenda at the World Humanitarian Summit this week, but advocates say discussing the free flow of shipments carrying bombs and guns might…
N. S. Venkataraman There are many cities in the world that are as big, and have a reputation and great history, as London. The mayors of these cities are elected or appointed at regular intervals and these are rarely reported…
By Nava Thakuria As Myanmar (formerly Burma) is opening up to the world, various Indian experts come forward advocating for New Delhi’s pro-active initiatives in this fast changing neighborhood. Recently concluded a discourse at Guwahati also witnessed the participants in…
By Daniel Twining It was only weeks ago that Donald Trump appeared unstoppable in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States. Although he had hardly won a majority of Republican voters in any state, his competitors…
By Edward Hammond Regulating access to genetic data is “the big issue of our time” in crop development, says Cornell University’s Edward Buckler. The maize geneticist contends that, at least for industrial agriculture, “Germplasm is becoming the information technology that…
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk, wrote, “When fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it’s extremely dangerous. It is overwhelming… The mass media and the military-industrial complex create a prison for us, so we continue…
By Joshua Holland More than anything, the terrorist group’s outward expressions of religious fervor serve its secular objectives of controlling resources and territory. Despite the existence of a good deal of research about terrorism, there’s a gap between the common…
By Binoy Kampmark “Privacy is a fundamental human right that is being eroded more and more in the modern world. Each person has a right to privacy, whether they are a king or a beggar.” Few could disagree with the…
The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a shutdown for Monday, when the High Court is scheduled to start hearing a writ petition on the issue of state religion. It claimed there was a “deep-rooted conspiracy to rid the country of religion by…
by Sharon Moshavi, Vice President, New Initiatives News organizations are struggling to cover ISIS, constrained by a lack of on-the-ground presence in the wake of its brutal murders of journalists, according to an International Center for Journalists’ panel of media…