SINCE the Anuradhapura period, Sri Lanka has long held the status of a major trading epicentre given its accessibility because of its geographical location and available infrastructure. The country’s trade
MADOGAZ Musa Abdullah still remembers the phone call. But what came next was a blur. He drove for hours, deep into the Libyan desert, speeding towards the border with Algeria.
Touhidul Islam, a resident of Araihazar in Narayanganj, came to Kamalapur railway station in the capital on Sunday noon to collect advance train tickets for a Rngpur-bound train. “I stood
ZBIGNIEW Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard was published 25 years ago. His assumptions and strategies for maintaining US global dominance have been hugely influential in US foreign policy. As the
THE Russian war in Ukraine has dominated headlines in the United States and Europe. It has been presented as a generation-defining event and as a pivot in geopolitics that will
WITHOUT a doubt, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, did the right thing in September 2017 by granting protection to the Rohingya Muslim minority arriving in Bangladesh. The refugees and forced
AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was a professor of English at Rajshahi University. He was killed in an incident believed to have been carried out by Islamist terrorists, which observers have
Graduates employability is now a national issue as every year huge number of graduates are passing out from higher educational institutions. Getting a job these days requires much more than
AS RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine moves through its second month, its unconcealable economic impact continues to grow at the global level. Price rises in energy,
Yeltsin wanted Clinton to agree to never consider former Soviet republics for membership, but Clinton refused, arguing vaguely that expansion was not directed against Russia, ‘but against new threats to