News On the 8th of March, The Independent paper in the UK ran the headline, "International Women's Day 2014: The shocking statistics that show why it is still so important." The piece presented sobering figures regarding women's lives 103 years after the first International Women's Day in 1911. It stated: globally 1 in 3 women will be beaten or raped during their lifetime; 70% of the 1.2 billion people living…

News In his recent interview to the American newspaper, Washington Post, on the 1st of March, President Karzai said that the war was "for the U.S. security and for the Western interest." He added that "Afghans died in a war that's not ours" and the forces have only damaged Afghans without providing them with any good. He also said that Al-Qaida is "more a myth than a reality" and the…

News On February 17, 2014, Bangladeshi state-owned Petrobangla signed two production sharing contracts (PSC) with the Indian state-owned ONGC Videsh Ltd and Oil India Ltd for hydrocarbon exploration in two offshore blocks in the Bay of Bengal. Under the contracts, the Indian companies would also have rights to explore an already discovered offshore gas field near Kutubdia beyond their allocated blocks. The contractors will be allowed to operate and sell…

News: On Friday 28th February, 2014 the Daily Nation published a cover story on scramble for land in Africa by rich countries. It was mentioned that in just five years, rich countries have acquired about 80 million hectares of land in Africa and other developing countries. Critics have dubbed this ''the big land grab'', or ''the new type of neo-colonialism''. The paper further revealed that foreigners have always owned land…