Three days after scripting history with the first winter ascent of Mt K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, Nirmal “Nims” Purja, one of the 10 Nepali summiteers, has announced that he climbed without using supplemental oxygen
Goals Beyond Borders: Can Bangladesh Leverage its Football Craze as a Soft-power Tool?
Beyond the ambassadors of Brazil, Argentina, and Norway, the ambassadors of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Egypt have also been drawing on their countries' football heritage to deepen cultural engagement with the football-crazy people of Bangladesh.
Name Change and Memory Archives: Striking Divergence Between India and Pakistan
Ironically, while India continues to rename roads and institutions associated with its medieval and colonial past, Pakistan’s Punjab province has begun moving in the opposite direction.
Protective Parenting: Raising Safe Children or Fragile Adults?
Unfortunately, a growing number of parents appear apprehensive about their children becoming proficient in their mother tongue, believing that greater exposure to local languages may somehow hinder their command of English or other global languages. This perception is both unfortunate and unfounded. A strong foundation in one's mother tongue strengthens cognitive development, improves learning outcomes, and facilitates the acquisition of additional languages.
When Poison Enters the System: Impunity, Vigilantism and South Asia’s Internal Security Failure
Across South Asia, the difference between prejudice and collapse is not the existence of hate. Every society has it in varying shades. The difference is whether the majoritarian state internalizes hate against the ‘other’, whether FIRs get diluted, trials get delayed, mobs get garlanded and impunity driven violence against minorities becomes low-cost. When that happens, the poison is not outside the system. It becomes the system.
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Bangladesh is 'country of focus' at International Film Festival of India
Bangladesh is the ‘Country of Focus’ at the 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) that began in Goa on January 16
A teacher who worships daughters at school
Setting a unique example, a teacher at a school in Madhya Pradesh in central India starts teaching only after worshiping girl students every day. He has been following this for more than 23 years
Pakistan to welcome pilgrims for Saka Nankana Sahib centenary
The Sikh community is all set to observe the Saka Nankana Sahib event from February 19 to 21, for which Pakistan has decided to issue visas to Indian Sikh pilgrims to attend the religious ceremony across the border
Suchitra Sen's 8th death anniversary observed in Bangladesh
Rich tributes were paid to the undisputed queen of the silver screen, Suchitra Sen on her 8th death anniversary across Bangladesh on Sunday
Two sisters ask Delhi to listen to the farmers' voice
Even as "Sun Dilliye Ni Sun Dilliye", a song written, composed and sung by the two young sisters on the ongoing farmers' protests in India continues to grab thousands of hits on social media from people across the world, the duo maintains that while all the praise has been extremely encouraging, what matters most is that people across barriers have been able to relate to it
A woman police officer, a role model for Muslim families
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The Buddhist Kung Fu nuns of India and Nepal
They are the Buddhist Kung Fu nuns of Drukpa lineage, known globally for trekking across the Himalayas to clean trash, paddling through mountain rivers to break centuries-old taboos to educate others on women's health, and adopting martial arts as a way to champion gender equality
Bangladesh film ‘Nonajoler Kabbo’ best film in Asian Select Category at Kolkata International Film Festival
Bangladeshi director Rezwan Shahriar Sumit's acclaimed debut feature film "Nonajoler Kabbo" won the Best Film in the Asian Select NETPAC category of the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival, reports our New Delhi correspondent
Shabana Azmi joins Sajal Aly in Jemima Goldsmith's upcoming film
It was announced last year that Jemima Goldsmith would be writing and producing her first romantic-comedy – under the banner of her company Instinct Production – titled What's Love Got To Do With It? Reports further added that she was to collaborate with Indian film-maker Shekhar Kapur on the film, which would be his first since the 2007 Oscar-winner Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Proteas in Pakistan for the first time since 2007
In a major development towards the revival of international cricket in Pakistan, the South African cricket team arrived in Karachi on Saturday after a break of 14 years
Ayesha dreams of becoming a Muslim marriage registrar in Bangladesh
Since her childhood days, Ayesha Siddiqua has watched absolute male dominance in solemnising Muslim marriages
2nd Miss Universe Bangladesh launched
After the very successful national debut, Bangladesh prepares to participate for the second time in the 69th edition of the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in USA in May 2021
Racism and abuse cannot be tolerated: David Warner apologises to India
Australian opener David Warner has said "sorry" to Mohammed Siraj and Team India after members of the visiting team were subjected to alleged racial abuse by a section of a the home crowd during the third Test at the famous Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Sri Lankan cricket great Sangakarra condemns racial abuse in sports
Sri Lankan cricket great and former captain Kumar Sangakarra condemned the racial abuse recently faced by the Indian players in Australia, demanding actions against the culprit, Daily Mirror reported
