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Tanvir A. Mishuk Signals Return to Help Rebuild Bangladesh’s Fintech Sector
Image created with the support of ai By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Tanvir A. Mishuk, founder and former Managing Director of Nagad- one of Bangladesh’s most prominent and debated Mobile Financial Service (MFS) providers- has expressed his intent to return to Bangladesh after two years abroad. In a social media statement, Mishuk announced that…
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30th Anniversary of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons under International Law: Appeal to the German Government and the Parliament: Nuclear Disarmament Must Not Remain an Empty Promise!
Appeal and Press release Exactly thirty years ago – on 8 July 1996 – the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion. Its key finding: the threat or use of nuclear weapons generally violates the rules of international humanitarian law. ‘The destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained in either space…
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New Dreams at the Asian Games: How Realistic is Bangladesh’s Target in 26 Disciplines?
By Maksuda Lisa (Dhaka Bureau) The Asian Games is the largest sporting event on the continent. Organized every four years by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), it is often dubbed the ‘Asian Olympics.’ Serving as a grand gathering for elite athletes from the world’s largest continent, almost all Asian nations participate. Beyond the Olympic…
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France’s Planned Deportation Of A Russian-Friendly Pundit Is Purely Political
Critical views about French policy towards the Ukrainian Conflict have been de facto criminalized. France ordered the deportation of Xenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France who’s lived in the country for nearly a decade and regularly shares Russian-friendly viewpoints on French media platforms, on the alleged grounds that her opinions are actually disinformation…
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China’s Sun: Between Record and Reality
China has just completed the largest superconducting magnet ever built for a fusion reactor and is preparing a machine that will attempt to generate electricity by 2030. But it has not ignited a star, it does not yet have an unlimited energy power plant, and not all the records announced measure the same thing. This…
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Esequibo II – Part I: The Territory That Returned to the Center of the Geopolitical Chessboard
“Oil, empires, and the border that no longer fits on a map, and turned a forgotten frontier into the planet’s new energy chessboard.” “When a border begins to produce oil, it ceases to be a legal line and becomes a test of strength. The Esequibo no longer belongs only to the colonial past. It belongs…
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A qualitative shift in U.S.-Israel intelligence sharing and implications for other countries
The U.S. bill S.4615 contains a little-discussed but significant provision: Section 622, which concerns the strengthening of intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel. For the United States, the issue raises serious questions about national security decision-making, intelligence oversight, and the conditions under which intelligence sharing can be reduced or suspended. But it does…
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RE Jitters at Tropic of Cancer
Florida is the nation’s barometer of climate change. It’s on the cutting edge of climate at latitude 24.5°N-to-31°N in-line with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. Significantly, it aligns with the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5°N, the hottest latitude on Earth. It’s there that climate change dances its special rhythm, a precursor to what’s in store…
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Preparatory Joint Meeting Held in Ishwardi, Bangladesh for the ‘4th World March for Peace and Nonviolence’
By Sheikh Arif (Dhaka Bureau) With a firm commitment to building a humane world free from war, conflict, and nuclear weapons, a participatory joint preparatory meeting was held in Ishwardi, a sub-district town in the northern district of Pabna, Bangladesh. The special exchange-of-views meeting was organized ahead of the global campaign titled ‘4th World March…
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Are we going to sit around waiting for the news of his death?
A tortured pediatrician in an Israeli prison, a Chilean abstention that breaks thirty years of history, and a question at La Moneda that no one wants to answer: when did we stop being the country of “never again”? His name is Hussam Abu Safiya. He is a pediatrician. He ran the Kamal Adwan Hospital in…