Opinion
It is quite clear that differing impacts created in different dimensions-social, economic, healthcare, transport connectivity and education- through climate change as well as infectious diseases like- Ebola, Monkeypox, Dengue and Covid - have clearly underlined the need for us to work together...
Donald Trump and the Republicans have experienced a tremendous victory. The elected 47th President of the United States of America did not only surpass the 270 electoral votes required; he also won the popular vote, can rely on an increased majority in the Senate, and will be able to count on t...
The whole world has been carefully monitoring how India, with the largest population in the world, is responding to the use of fossil fuels and whether this country will be able to ever achieve its emission targets.Environmental analysts have noted that while India continues to rely heavily on coal,...
Without required investment in social development and crisis response, vulnerable communities in different parts of the world are becoming more vulnerable to the impacts and stressors put on by multiple crises. This scenario, caused by climate vulnerability and also lack of funds in a world sufferin...
Africa has opened the eyes of the rest of the world. Ongoing violence, climate change, desertification, and tension over natural resources are all worsening hunger and poverty across Chad—and also across Africa.A landmark report released last July by five UN agencies— the World Hea...
The ASEAN Summit, a biannual meeting held by the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss and find common denominators in relation to economic, political, security, and socio-cultural development of Southeast Asian countries. In addition, it serves as a prominent regi...
BRICS, an intergovernmental economic-political organization, comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. Originally it was constituted to assist in the identification and highlighting of investment opportunities. The grouping has ev...
In the last week of September President M. Shahabuddin urged the Bangladesh Information Commission and other public and private organizations to take more initiatives to raise awareness about the Right to Information Act (RTI) to ensure the proper implementation. This was done to mark the “int...
The United Nations, over the last year, had been relentlessly promoting the Summit of the Future – scheduled for September 22-23—as a landmark event. And rightly so. However, surprisingly, the list of speakers, reflected notable absentees for a high-level summit. The representatives from...
Currently, the Global North appears to have no hesitation in dominating the marginalized and economically less developed world. This approach is casting a long shadow on developing countries.This course of action has led strategic analysts from the developing world to refer to this evolving sc...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for reform and has observed that the African continent is underrepresented in a changing world with evolving dimensions. The United Nations Chief has called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to reform its outdated structure and assign Africa a perman...
Economists the world over have been monitoring the evolving financial scenario and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) that is leading to tragic consequences for the comparatively poorer countries in the South as opposed to the developed countries in the global North.Economic analyst J.K. Sundaram has...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) recently celebrated the completion of forty-nine years since their establishment on 28 May, 1975. It is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries of West Africa. Collectively, the countries comprise an area of about...
The recent observance of the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place on August 6 and 9, 1945, still remains as a forbidding reminder of the destructive consequences of nuclear weapons. It emerged subsequently that the US bombings killed an e...
There is general consensus all over the world that coordinated and serious attention need to be given towards responding to cyber-attacks. Malevolent cyber activities have become a growing threat.Cyber-attacks are posing a number of challenges, both technical and political. Many countries are also d...
As in the case of the past two years, the media and climatologists have been focusing on different continents being on fire, on the melting of glaciers and also on coral reefs dying in different oceans in different parts of the world. This has resulted in political leaders as well as environmental a...
One can recall that the Bangladesh convened World Peace Conference-2021 in Dhaka was attended by diplomatic representatives from many countries, from international civil society members as well as the media.In her speech delivered to the audience during the concluding session of the Conference on 5 ...
Human Rights activists over the past few months have not only demonstrated unity but also the required courage to hold countrywide protests against sexual assault and the abuse of basic rights of individuals which are legally based on equality and non-discrimination of gender. Extra-judicial killing...
The media reminded Bangladesh on 7 July that the National Moon Sighting Committee had decided the day before on 6 July that the holy Ashura would be on July 17 as the moon of Muharram of 1446 Hijri had not been sighted in the sky on that night. Ashura is a day of remembrance in Islam. It occurs annu...
Coming into this debate in Atlanta, USA, polling indicated that voters gave Trump better marks on the economy and immigration - two of the top issues for American voters at the moment. Meanwhile, President Biden was favored on abortion, healthcare and the environment.During the debate and afterwards...
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