I was once called a whore. Chances are, so have you, if you're a woman. And like me, you've probably been called other names too (and I'm sorry that you have), but this is the one I choose to focus on because this one befuddles me.

Since the re-escalation of tensions between the government of Myanmar and the Rohingya people in October 2016 and the reinvigorated persecution of the minority group that followed, thousands of Rohingyas have again fled to Bangladesh - the United Nations humanitarian office's most recent estimate is 69,000.

You can sit back and witness a silent movie unfolding, starring a street vendor and a buyer. Some people ask the price to pass time, and the disgusted seller knows it.

Although President Trump has only been in office for less than a month, it is already becoming clear how he intends to carry out implementing his campaign pledges and who he is appointing in his cabinet.

By habit, I shake the morning newspapers violently every morning. This way, I shake redundance off the pages.

After the announcement of the new monetary policy for January-June 2017, the stock market faced a rapid decline, suggesting a negative response of the capital market to the central bank's stance and attitude.

Isn't this refugee migration the creation of the West? Hasn't the West-imposed wars on the Middle East and North Africa that have totally destroyed the socio-religious fabric of Muslim civilisation in these parts of the world? The result - millions are now at the doors of the West as refugees.

In his bestselling book, The Black Swan (2007), Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed an interesting theory.

Sorry I'm not writing today on Rampal or the proposed Fat VAT (ok, Fat Tax). I have a feeling that the next 200 Humorously Yours

On January 27, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily (at least 90 days) banning the

No apol-ogy when one is due would reflect my insensitivity. The excuse for my unusually long voluntary hiatus is that the media the

The private tennis clubs in the US remained off limits to minorities well into the second half of the twentieth century. Her distinction thus comes with the ability to imagine herself achieving a new kind of history for all of us.

The humiliating spectacle of the uprooting of the nameplate of an Assistant Commissioner of Customs at his Chittagong office, allegedly by enraged clearing and forwarding agents, along with the transfer of the said official in indecent haste, has unfortunately not evoked the desired reaction.

The anti-immigrant protagonists forget that the country is a nation of immigrants, although there has been periodic enactment of anti-migrant policies. Immigrants were at times unwelcome, out of fear and anger.

One of the important aspects of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change achieved at the 21st conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015 was the inclusion of a global goal for adaptation.

Luckily we don't live in the United States of America. Luckily we don't have to take to the streets to protest the executive orders of the president.

It could be over who gets to play in the field that day or who should be occupying the alleys to intimidate passersby. It could be because the harassment of a girl was protested. Or because a 'proposal' was rejected. It could be just about anything that can trigger brutality in a youngster.

Donald Trump in his inaugural speech thundered that from now on it will be “America first”.

USA finally comes to terms with test cricket – a long, drawn out game where it may not always matter who wins: Clinton vs. Trump. . .

It was an expression of outrage against the apparent acceptability of anti-woman rhetoric, racial discrimination, religious intolerance and insularity, diseases that keep thriving across the globe.