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Even though no immediate solution seems to be in sight for millions of hungry people, Sri Lanka is fast becoming a strategic flashpoint. Earlier, there were talks about different world powers playing their roles in giving Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa a safe exit from Sri Lanka by getting their consensus choice – Ranil Wickremesinghe — become the new president.

Globally, most business and tech media, both online and offline (read print), for the past few days are discussing the muted and declining revenue of the Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the face of growing competition from TikTok.

In recent times, more Bangladeshi and Nepali migrant workers have died abroad than before. An increase in migrant mortality has been reported from countries as varied as the Middle East to Malaysia. Both the Nepal and Bangladesh governments are deeply perturbed by an ominous uptick in fatalities among their valued workers, whose crucial remittances help fuel domestic economic growth.

I2-U2, the Indo-West Asian quad, has boasted its first success with the acquisition by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani of Haifa Port.

Myanmar’s military rulers on July 252 reported the execution of four pro-democracy activists — Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw. Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw were convicted under counter-terrorism laws in January while Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were convicted for allegedly killing a military informant in April. Ko Jimmy was a popular pro-democracy activist while Phyo Zeya was an opposition lawmaker and a close associate of former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The convictions were awarded by military courts in closed-door trials. The bodies of the executed activists were cremated by the military authorities without informing their families. These were the first capital punishments in over 30 years in Myanmar.

The recent burst of Supreme Court rulings and January 6 Committee revelations have put the MAGA agenda and its plans to seize power front and center in U.S. politics.

WASHINGTON: On Saturday, July 23, hundreds of Filipino youth activists from all over the D.C. and Baltimore areas came to the nation’s capital to denounce the new Marcos family dynasty regime in the Philippines.

The Sonali Bank Limited, the biggest state owned bank in Bangladesh is under controversy. The Bank management has been accused by All India Bank Employees’ Association general secretary C H Venkatachalam in a letter on 25 March 2022 of having trampled the laws of land in India to sack the general secretary of Sonali Bank Employees Association Syed Md. Sahabuddin and a few other staff of Kolkata and Siliguri branches of SBL But the SBL management chose to ignore the AIBEA letter.

While the MPs and intellectuals belonging to the Conservative party are impatiently waiting for the D-Day, September 5, to choose Rishi Sunak as the new Prime Minister, from the two left over contestants, Sunak and Liz Truss, a vicious drive has been launched against Sunak cautioning the members that the party would lose the parliamentary election of 2024 under his leadership as he lacks the charisma and also popular appeal.

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire post World War-l, the Islamic religio-political movement accelerated its activities to revive and embolden the antecedent Islamic systems around the world. After a long battle, the Taliban's victory over the superpower America has re-energized the other mujahideen in their goal to establish Islamic emirate States.