|
Barack Obama got a basketball, his first name and ambition from his father. Little else.
The son gave back more than he received: a lifetime of ruminations about the man who abandoned the family, a memoir named "Dreams from My Father," and endless reflec |
|
|
Recent data suggest that the rate of contraction in the world economy may be slowing. But hopes that green shoots of recovery may be springing up have been dashed by plenty of yellow weeds. Recent data on employment, retail sales, industrial production, a |
|
|
THE gradually narrowing rivers that surround our capital Dhaka no longer hold water; rather, all they carry are stinky, mucky liquids. We the Dhakaites are at the mercy of policy planners who, irrespective of their political colours, appear to be deaf and |
|
|
Jyoti Malhotra
April may be the cruellest month elsewhere in the world, but in India this year it signifies the limitless possibility of hope, undertaking and desire. Blame it on the overwhelming sensuality of the country's 15th general elections that |
|
|
Mahbub Manik
Cover letter:
Cover letter is like the first date, the first impression to win. Recruiters mirror you through it. It is the core of your CV. You have to convince the selectors to look at your CV from the thousands of CV. Many of us still |
|
|
by Vernon Church
He was the rarest kind of great adventurer, a man who travels to remote corners of the world in a quest for knowledge. So if Roy Chapman Andrews is such a big deal, exactly where in the encyclopedia should a student look up his name? L |
|
|
Little has gone as planned in Afghanistan in recent months, and Obama's advisers know their program to counter a resourceful insurgency may not work, and will cost many more American lives before they find out.
Anne Gearen
WHEN US President Barack O |
|
|
Mahfujur Rahman
KEEPING animals in zoo for public recreation is an age old concept .In the last few centuries many zoos have been established around the world as a refuge for the captured wild animals mainly for giving people pleasure. However, rather |
|
|
Barrister Harun ur RashidThe latest political twist in Pakistan of banning former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif by the Supreme Court has plunged the country into greater instability where thousands of Sharif's supporters have |
|
|
Huma Yusuf
IF you googled the phrase 'failed state' this past week, the search result would toss up links to several online definitions of the same as well as news stories and blog posts about two countries: Pakistan and Mexico.
Separated by oceans, |
|
