Kurds, Turkomans and Arabs criticise recommendations on how to resolve territorial disputes in north. By Zaineb Naji in Baghdad Rival political factions have slammed a United Nations proposal to settle disputes over control of a number of areas in the north of the country, arguing the recommendations are more likely to deepen their disagreements than […]
51 Lives Claimed By Recent Car Bombing in Baghdad
Recently, Baghdad has suffered one of the deadliest strikes within months as a car bomb had gone off in the evening in the middle of a crowd of shoppers. It would seem as terrorists are once again trying to spark tensions between the Shiites and the Sunnis of Iraq. So far, a pick-up truck was […]
Rationalizing Fuel Price: So far a half done act
If you have hundred taka to give subsidy, whom do you give it to? A labourer to buy food or a private car owner worried about rising fuel price? Also, don’t treat fuel and fertiliser similarly. Why, would you ask? The way we are going to open this article may seem like dramatizing, but it […]
The World is What it is: Biography on V.S.Naipaul launched
‘The World is What it is ‘ a biography on the Nobel Laureate, V.S.Naipaul, written by Patrick French, has been recently launched. It portrays Naipaul in all its complexity but never judges him, says his biographer Patrick French. The biography leaves us confronting the enormous contradiction: How could a man so gifted also be depraved […]
Armenia: April 24 – Genocide Memorial Day
– by Onnik Krikorian Yesterday marked the 93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocideand the deaths of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Often described as the first Genocide of the 20th Century, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin invented the term in the 1940s with the Armenian and Jewish Holocausts in mind. Every year on 24 April, a date marking […]
New Oil in Brazil Unleashes a Gusher of Media Controversies
Twisted information about the discovery of what may possibly be the third largest oil field in the world turned into a hot issue on the Brazilian blogosphere this week. The trigger was a comment from the head of Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency [ANP], Haroldo Lima, mentioning that the recently found Carioca [or Sugar Loaf] field in […]