A regional initiative across countries in Asia is helping young people find innovative solutions to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in their communities.

In Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, a football player has put together a football team of vulnerable and marginalised

The Varanasi District Judge on September 12 dismissed the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s challenge to the maintainability of civil suit (for pooja / worship of Hindu deities in Gyanvapi-masjid premises) by Hindu women. On May 20, the Supreme Court directed the Varanasi District judge

No doubt the suffering and hardship Umar Khalid is undergoing due to jail without trial [under draconian law (for any democracy) like ‘Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act’ the UAPA] can trigger hopelessness in such situation but the situation is not that bad in India as is said by ma

The Congress Member of Parliament from Wayanad (Kerala) and its main (public appearance) leader Rahul Gandhi (who addressed the public meeting of Congress against price rise at Ramlila maidan new Delhi on September 4) has started his about 3,570 K.M long ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (connect I

The bullets fired from Myanmar have arrived inside Bangladesh at Ghumdhum-Tumbru border of Naikxyongchari upazila of Bandarban district. As of writing this report (Saturday, 6.25 p.m.), shelling is still going on in Myanmar. Shelling has been going on in the border areas of the country for severa

After a two-day shutdown, firing has resumed in Myanmar across the Ghumdhum border in Bandarban's Naikxyongchari upazila in Bangladesh since Tuesday (September 6) morning. Artillery and mortar shells are being fired intermittently.

According to media reports, for 23 consecutive days

PM Modi (after the meeting of some opposition political parties, the JDU, RJD, TRS leaders in Bihar) is worried and on Thursday in Kerala said that -"[ I had said from the Red Fort on 15 August that the time has come to fight decisively against corruption. However, what we see is that as we

With the recent killing of Al-Qaeda (AQ) chief Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghan capital Kabul a lot of speculation is happening on the future of this terror outfit. Some analysts even going to the extent and suggesting that Al-Qaeda is nearing its end. But certainly that is highly unlikely. The group s

Introduction: Hardly any State has, throughout the past half century, lived through a history as turbulent and as violent as that of Afghanistan. Since the Soviet invasion of 1979, Afghanistan has been trapped in seemingly endless cycles of violence wherein the abatement of one conflict merely ap

First of all, let me express deep appreciation to the Pakistan Business Forum, Azad Kashmir for inviting the leadership of Kashmiri Diaspora of Washington metropolitan area to speak on the subject, “Kashmir Dispute & the Role of Diaspora.” Lot has happened on the corridors of powe

Myanmar's violent ethnic cleansing program, which forcibly forced roughly a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps, is going to mark its fifth anniversary upcoming August month. Myanmar's persecution of Rohingya Muslims is not new, with major waves of emigration recorded

The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has taken effect in the Gaza Strip after days of cross-border fighting triggered by surprise Israeli airstrikes. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said its aerial bombardment was a pre-emptive action aimed at preventing rocket att

As the age-old wisdom goes, the most difficult thing in the world is to take money from someone because generally people give money after deliberation. That is why if the followers of religions (like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism etc) are giving lot of money, wealth, land, landed proper

Lip service to democracy by the USA / Pelosi would fool no one (ii)- Strategic retreat over Taiwan legitimate only if USA launches new global organization for ‘rule based participatory secular democracies’ (iii)- New global organization will help the USA in getting assistance of India

Learn from Sheikh Hasina: Pakistan's newspaper The Express Tribune published an article praising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's leadership for Bangladesh's economic development. The article published on Tuesday titled 'Takeaway from Bangladesh's Leadership' was authored by