Nizamuddin Ahmed

Things appeared relatively calm one Wednesday morning. Officials were screening passengers and baggage. Children were running

Despite the rising human debris in Syria, as UK joins the posse bombing 'only' military targets by consent of its parliament albeit divided...

Perhaps the Pakistanis need reminding that whereas a full-fledged military operation of the savagest brutality could not silence unarmed Bangalees, such hollow attempts of frail intimidation could not even tickle us.

There was an outcry on Facebook the past week about why the infectious social platform was blatantly discriminating between bloodshed in Beirut on Thursday and Paris the day after, both ISIS-orchestrated.

You have heard of G-11, and may have wondered how outlandish that can be. How many layers of 'economicsphere' separate us and them?

Despite endless untiring songs about bringing equality for all humanity (for instance, One World One Song, Dionne Warwick), even...

Use an interpreter. But, never let your counterpart have the upper hand by coaxing you to speak in his tongue in your own country. Your pride, your history, your very being should refrain you from doing that.

There is remembrance of the 9000-plus dead, yet there is an underlying resolve among the people. The dead shall not rise for sure, but

Not that I am very keen, except maybe for a selfie with the doorman to the envy of my Facebook friends, I have over the past week discovered a sure way to be invited to the White House; more so because of Mark Zuckerberg's interest in the most ridiculous of science-related stories.

Love him or not, you cannot but be awestruck at the sheer bluntness, call it lack of guile, of Suranjit Sengupta for his candid pronouncement to government employees within 24 hours of their pay hike.

When India denied us our much-needed legitimate river water, they succumbed to the West Bengal logic that water was in short supply across the border, but stopping migration of excess cows defies all rationality.

The name Barrack Obama will remain etched in history as the first black President of the United States (POTUS). Soon, with a little more help from Donald Trump (Conservative/Independent), the US might be having its first woman president.

Imagine there is a bridge collapse. Starting from the concerned minister's naki via the chief engineer's naki through six administrative levels and two technical levels, each crossing out because of some masterly nakis; the blame ultimately falls on an MLSS, who did not report to duty on the fateful day.

According to one Bengali folklore, albeit in reference to a woman, it is said that she who can cook can also tie up her hair. Perhaps

This country has on and off been plagued by wrong decisions of several ministers, bureaucrats and public servants, shamed by unruly behaviour of...

We washed out Pakistan 3-0 in an ODI series last April and we convincingly defeated India 2-1 last week,; situations unthinkable for me to pen or utter two decades ago. Yes, indeed, we have come a long way.

Thousands of long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar are believed to be stuck at sea on people-smuggler boats, unable to land because of a crackdown on illegal trafficking networks in Thailand and Malaysia, officials and refugee activists say.

Switzerland is a country known for its tranquility, and its citizens as one of the most law-abiding in the world. How a person from such

Unauthorised construction and rampant violation of code, yes, but have we tried to find other Rana Plazas in the country?

The mother lies in the mortuary. Her son is trying desperately to get an airline ticket from the States to get home for her janaza.