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An aerial drone photo taken on July 11, 2024 shows a view of an ecological garden on border of the Maowusu desert in Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng) Amid the chilling wind of an early winter…

MANILA, Philippines – As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board meets today to deliberate its 2025 Energy Policy Review, a coalition of civil society groups led by the Nuclear Free Bataan Movement (NFBM) held a protest at the bank’s headquarters, condemning…

After a thumping win in the Bihar Assembly elections, the BJP-led central government started to implement its hidden agendas, which it kept pending for more than five years. On Friday, November 21, 2025, it notified the four labour codes, which…

The emerging result is a “return to history” in the sense of former regional leaders restoring their lost spheres of influence with US support and all that entails for worsening tensions with the Sino-Russo Entente. It was recently assessed that…

For what may be the first time in world history, a government collapsed in just 30–32 hours because of a youth-led movement. In a country like Nepal, still in the early phase of digital development, it is natural to ask…

By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Bangladesh is standing on the edge of a precipice. For the first time since 1971, the country faces the real possibility of systemic collapse – political, institutional, and civilizational. The death sentence handed down to…

Jag Mohan Thaken –India Some are born to serve the society; some to preserve the society and some to ‘swerve’ the society. But he has all these qualities. When due to the fear of the spread of Corona, everyone was…

by George Banez ”Oh, you weren’t even born yet the second time I went to jail,” said Tatang as he lounged on a wooden platform raised two feet above the dirt floor of the “cottage.” Made of bamboo, the cottage was…

by Sheikh Arif (Dhaka Bureau) It was a Friday morning. The clock showed 10:38 AM. Since it was the weekly holiday, many working people were still asleep. Some were having breakfast, while others were at the market. Suddenly, a tremor.…

Guwahati:  The curtain came down for the Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2025 on 16 November, as two Assamese writers were felicitated in the valedictory ceremony at  Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the prehistoric city of Guwahati with the gracious presence of  PLF…