Opinion
The trail of illegal migration and immigration winds its way through the Bay of Bengal to the Indian Ocean or pursues its own path from the North African and Levant shoreline to the south and south-eastern coasts of Europe. This has also raised illegal connotations of human trafficking as desperate ...
Economists have been carefully monitoring the evolving eroding global financial scenario and also what is happening within Bangladesh. Civil society groups have been analyzing the developing socio-economic situation in South Asia and providing helpful suggestions as to how our Bangladesh Bank ...
Political analysts from all over the world carefully monitored the latest 17th annual Summit of the Group of Twenty (G-20) – the world’s most powerful economies- which was held in Bali, Indonesia. There has been discussion and debate about whether attention was paid towards global econom...
The question floating around the world now- is whether we have achieved too little in terms of collective action and is it too late?Recently some environmentalists have drawn attention to a report prepared by a group of scientists entitled ``The Limits to Growth” &nb...
Results have emerged from a ground-breaking research which has helped to quantify vast ground water reservoirs across Bangladesh- that can assist in revolutionizing aspects within the agriculture paradigm and the food production matrix.Commenting on this scenario S.A. Haque has pointed out that lack...
Environmental analysts and socio-economists have been making less than positive observations about the forthcoming United Nations Climate Summit (COP 27) scheduled to be convened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6 to November 18 this year. Last year COP 26 was held in Glasgow, UK.This summit ...
Analysts in the European Union have started expressing their anxiety over cyber security in Europe. One can recall such nervousness having taken place a few years ago at the time of the Trump Administration. Subsequently fingers were also pointed towards China and North Korea.This evolving...
The media reported from New York on 10 October that the United Nations had censured 42 nations for retaliating against human rights activists and journalists. These countries had been singled out of 193 member States for condemnation– virtually blacklisting them– for retaliating against ...
Media reports originating from the United States regarding the Biden Administration’s latest plans pertaining to Covid-19 shots and treatment coverage are being monitored very carefully by health sectors all over the world.Health analyst Stephanie Armour on 18 August, 2022 informed throug...
In the paradigm of economics, recession-inflation in the modern context is gaining careful scrutiny all over the world. Socio-economists tend to describe this dynamic as a situation where the rate of inflation is high or increasing, resulting not only in the slowing down of economic growth but ...
aEconomic gender parity as well as social parity ensures gains not only for economies of developed countries but also developing countries. They can build momentum until they have a positive impact for women and girls around the world because empowering women is no longer just an ethical issue. They...
Very correctly, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the opening of the 77th UN General Assembly session has not only warned that the world is in peril from multiple threats but that there is need for solidarity and cooperation amongst the Member States. In this context he has also highl...
United Kingdom over the last few days has demonstrated that nothing is permanent. We have witnessed the end of an era and moment of history. This dynamic has underlined that life is a relay race where the baton and marker of responsibility is passed on to someone else on a regular basis. This could ...
Humanitarian agencies have warned Pakistan is in need of long-term aid as the death toll from its catastrophic flooding continues to climb. The two worst-affected provinces are Balochistan and Sindh, in southern Pakistan, where infrastructure and water systems have been damaged. The flooding has aff...
The month of August for the people of Bangladesh has been one filled with sorrow and uncertainty. On 25 August we have also recalled the five-year commemoration of the genocide committed against the Rohingya in 2017. This was done by civil society organizations and many countries all over the world ...
Due to the increasingly visible consequences of climate change, governments are finding it difficult to downplay the warnings of scientists. Among the weather consequences of the climate change emergency are worldwide record-breaking high temperatures as well as droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, ...
This day marks the 47th anniversary of the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation and many members of his immediate family. On this day of this tragic month we need to acknowledge once again the historic role that he played as the master helmsman in the c...
Head-to- head clashes between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have witnessed each of the contenders trying to be the next Prime Minister tearing into each other over a broad range of issues- be it tax, the future of the UK economy or subsequent relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union o...
The recent ideas put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel for a ‘European geo-political community’ has marked according to analyst Marta Mucznik the start of a collective reflection on how to expand the EU’s g...
The first half of July marked the mid-way point related to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. As expected, consistent with the evolving dimensions and the accompanying difficulties, the world is witnessing severe difficulties in its efforts to eradicate poverty and h...
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