Fascinatingly, this Ramadan it's pillow talks and fights to have presided over Iftar politics. The countrywide gossip to have erupted over procuring pillows for abnormally high prices to furnish apartments in multi-storey buildings at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project
There are four individual ayahs in the Quran's second chapter, Sura Al--Bakara that mentions of Ramadan, fasting and the revelation of the holy book. Fascinatingly, three of the ayahs generally focus on the nature of fasting, its timeframe and do's
One of the most common mistakes that occur in a pop-cultured understanding of Islam is that Muslims are widely focused entirely on quantity of their deeds, and not quality. How many people are attending? How large was the event? How
Operational activities of the Islamic State aka the IS matters, and it matters more than ever following the Sri Lanka bombings. As far as IS involvement is concerned with the bombings there are two probabilities. First, the IS claim could
Today is the birth anniversary of the loftiest of tyrants in the history of mankind. The civilised world largely paints him as the most repulsive creature ever to have existed. The bone-chilling vocabularies such as The Holocaust, concentration camp, gas
Repercussions of last Friday's killings in the two New Zealand mosques at Christchurch will be unthinkable--no it's not a prediction but a projection of the horrible reality of a near future. To many it might appear that the systematic killing
What's actually happening between India and Pakistan right now is no short of a mirage. First, India directly accused Pakistan for the killing of at least 40 Indian paramilitary members in a suicide bomb attack by Pakistan trained militants on
Despite not being an energy expert on any count, I have often remained in two minds considering our gas reserves and exploration related issues. The confusion had actually deepened because of two contradictory prevailing myths on our existing and potential
Asafuddowlah is a renaissance man in this country. A talented, singer, a gifted civil servant and only as of late, I came to realise that he was also a capable writer. And when my friend Takir had handed me his
The fact that Bangladesh was increasingly getting focused to remodel its diplomatic priorities became clearer last year--when the prime minister officially declared India not need to worry about Dhaka's growing ties with China--asserting that the cooperation with Beijing was meant