Opinion

Malady of Female Migrant Workers

The debate stands not on female workers’ (FWs) migration itself in principle, rather on the process and difficulties faced afterwards, particularly in the Middle East (ME), being abused and harassed,

Air Pollution Rising at Alarming Rate

This year, air pollution has crossed the record of last six years. Department of Environmental Science of Stamford University Bangladesh analysed Air Quality Index (AQI) data of last six years,

Reclaiming your inner fascist

OK, WE need to talk about fascism. Not just any kind of fascism. A particularly insidious kind of fascism. No, not the fascism of the early 20th Century. Not Mussolini’s

The president of all who voted for and against

PRESIDENT Gotabaya Rajapaksa scored an impressive victory at the hotly contested presidential election winning 52.5 per cent of the vote when the general expectation was that a second preference count

West pushes Russia, China closer together

WITH Beijing celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule, there has been a heated discussion across the Western world about the role that China is going to

Precarious work makes women more vulnerable

Shawdesh Desk: That is why the recent International Labour Organisation’s convention on violence and harassment at work is so important. Governments need to take it further. ONE of the main

November 1975 Of Crimes and Bloodshed

The month of November is one the most depressing months in the annuls of our history in the whole year. This heart breaking month of November has come again in

A reward for ‘egregious’ violations

A balance sheet would show that more has been lost than retrieved in the Ayodhya judgement, writes Sukumar Muralidharan THE Supreme Court of India has to be given wide latitude