Dhaka, May 16 (IANS) Bangladesh has witnessed heart-wrenching losses, including youth dying in foreign wars, bodies lost at sea, and families left in eternal grief and debt. These are not mere accidents of geography or the actions of distant traffickers but the direct and predictable result of long-standing internal failures in “economic planning, education, migration governance, and political leadership”, a report mentioned. “On May 2, 28-year-old Md Riyad Rashid from Kishoreganj was killed i…
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Cairo, May 10 (IANS) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Egypt to discuss regional developments, including escalating tensions linked to Iran and the United States, and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The meeting took place on Saturday on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony for the French-speaking international university Senghor University’s new headquarters in Egypt’s New Borg El-Arab City, north of Cairo, the Egyptian Presidenc…
Tehran, March 21 (IANS) Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has stressed that the recent attacks on parts of Turkey and Oman were not carried out by the Iranian armed forces or its allies.He made the remarks in a message to extend congratulations on the arrival of Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday (local time), which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and Nowruz, the beginning of the Iranian new year that falls on March 21, according to a statement published on his website.Khamenei said Iran has…
Athens, Feb 25 (IANS) Ties between India and Greece are acquiring heightened strategic importance, especially in defence sector, amid shifting regional geopolitical alignments. The deepening India-Greece ties demonstrate not only bilateral interests but also a broader strategic convergence aimed at maintaining balance and stability across the Mediterranean and the Indo-Pacific, a report has highlighted. “The broader region is marked by shifting alliances, regional rivalries, and emerging axes of…
Tel Aviv, Feb 10 (IANS) The killing of Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, ultimately reflects a Mediterranean region drifting away from political solutions toward managed disorder, where elections are indefinitely postponed, assassinations become corrective tools, and external actors adapt rather than resist, a report said on Tuesday.It added that this does not represent just a collapse but a far more dangerous shift towards normalisation.Writing for ‘Times of…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Climate change and industrial pollution are worsening the healthcare crisis in Bangladesh, according to a media report.The Irish Times reported that despite emitting only about 0.3 per cent of global CO2 emissions from combustible fuels, the air quality in Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, regularly ranks among the worst in the world. This is surging diseases such as asthma, lung cancer, bronchitis, pneumonia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the capital cit…