Tobacco industry interference in its myriad sinister forms is one of the biggest obstacles to implement the legally-binding global tobacco treaty. Unless the devious designs of Big Tobacco are thwarted and the industry is held to account legally and financially for causing irreparable damage to h

If Prez Biden expects something from Americans then he should first listen to Americans (ii)- In this age of democracy the new world order will be politically viable only when it will be people oriented and not government oriented as was the UN (iii)- Secularism doesn’t mean religion has be

 On October 28, Bangabandhu Tunnel, a modern transportation system of great national pride, opened. It's more than a tunnel—it's a symbol of patriotism and national pride. Thank Sheikh Hasina, Bangabandhu's daughter, for building this dream tunnel. His unshakable passion, f

The religion (Islam) started  by Prophet Muhammad wouldn’t go down so easily without offering deadly fight (ii)- Pakistan will be crucial in militant Jihad against Israel (iii)- To bounce back politically, Imran Khan can exploit such militant Jihad by Muslim Ummah against Israel&n

The Bangabandhu Tunnel, the only tunnel in South Asia, was opened by Sheikh Hasina, the visionary behind Bangladesh's transformation, the development wizard and architect of a brighter future for Bengalis. It spans 3.43 km from Patenga in Chittagong to Anwara end of Chittagong. Chittagong res

Even after the highly triumphantly publicized case of Kulbhushan Jadav in Pakistan the MEA didn’t formulate effective  policy to deal with such cases in foreign countries. 

A Qatar court has announced the death penalty for eight Indians arrested in the country last

Gaza is dominating the headlines of all the major media publications around the world because of the humanitarian crisis developing there. On the other hand, Turkey's atrocities on innocent civilians in North-East Syria are going largely unnoticed. At the start of this month, Turkey launched

 IF necessary XI can even constrain India to provide adequate military assistance to such UNSC resolution by commissioning Chinese Buddhism for bringing India under its political influence (ii)_ if western world frustrate such UNSC resolution by veto then China should establish new global or

Through resolution 47/196 adopted on 22 December 1992, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 17 October as the “International Day for the Eradication of Poverty”…”It proclaimed that poverty is a violation of human rights and affirmed the need to come togethe

Last month the Baloch Liberation Tigers (BLT) abducted six football players who BLT said were informants of ISI. In response, a large-scale military operation was launched in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan. High-ranking officials, including Pakistan Army’s Twelfth Corps Commander As

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, chaired by Ambassador Alexander Marschik of Austria, which deals with the social, humanitarian, and cultural issues had an interactive dialogue with various UN Thematic Special Rapporteurs on October 12, 2023. Dr. Alice Jill Edwards (Aus

A Lancet Commission report investigating the nexus of "Women, power, and cancer" says that "patriarchy dominates cancer care, research, and policy making."

 The report underlines that "women experience gender bias, and are subject to overlapping forms of di

Unless the full cascade of quality healthcare services reaches closer to the underserved communities, how will we deliver on the promise of #HealthForAll? One positive ray of light comes from an underserved block of Meghalaya, a north-eastern state of India.

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On October 9, 2023, Nitish Birdi, Indian delegate to the United Nations claimed at the UN Fourth Committee ‘the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will always remain an integral part of India.’ Earlier on October 4, 2023, Dr. Kajal Bhat alleged at the Sixth Committee &l

A seasoned activist of the American Civil LibertiesUnion, who started off fighting injustice while she was still in school, has thanked Hilton Worldwide for removing a KKK picture from the eighth floor of The Tutwiler in downtown Birmingham last month and requested it not to be shy on being woke