To remain relevant, the IMF must undertake comprehensive reforms—revising its governance structure, enhancing decision-making transparency, and moderating its loan conditionalities. By expanding representation and reducing the dominance of a handful of powerful nations, the IMF can empower borrowing countries to shape policies that better reflect their unique economic challenges.
All seekers of truth, no matter in which field, also tried to understand what makes our world and universe tick. That gave them a feeling of awe and also showed that probably what they thought was an original idea and thought was nothing else but existing knowledge in the knowledge space that was channeled through them.
The distribution of free food, freebies and subsidies by political parties has created massive idle energy across the country which breeds indiscipline. People abhor physical work, sell agricultural land and migrate to cities. They prefer to do menial jobs, live on rental income or bank interest than creating their own economic assets.
Who does the conflict benefit? This is a question many are asking. The latest conflict has only solidified support for those in power, distracting from the real issues of poverty, unemployment, inequality, and other government incompetencies and failures.
Celebrated Pakistani designer Ali Xeeshan, in a powerful fashion campaign, highlighted the age-old tradition of dowry practiced mostly in South Asia and rampant in Pakistan. The fashion campaign was supported by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Pakistan
Kathmandu Triennale has announced new dates for the fourth edition which will now take place from October 27 to November 27, 2021
A cyclist and mountaineer, she is out to prove to the world that girls are capable of doing anything without family support
The 45th edition of the International Kolkata Book Fair, to be held in July this year, will be dedicated to Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Bangladesh will be the country-in-focus of the event, said the organisers
A new Technical Advisory Committee for cricket has been appointed by Sri Lanka's Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa, the local media reported
For the first time in the country, two Bangladeshi transgender women have been nominated to study at an international platform at Brac James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), Brac University, a private research university in Bangladesh
In 2018, noted filmmakers Kumar Shahani and Saeed Akhtar Mirza met in Delhi for a very special event
An elegant heritage building in Jaipur is playing host to 33 destitute who were left to begging on the streets and who are picking life skills thanks to an innovative Rajasthan state government initiative
A couple in Tamil Nadu tied the knot 60 feet underwater in the Bay of Bengal near the coast off Neelankarai in the south of Chennai
Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has imposed a 10-year ban on two Indian mountaineers, restricting them from climbing any peak in Nepal after they produced fake documents to say that they had climbed the Mount Everest in May 2016
A type of paper called 'Mon Shugu', which has been made in the hilly regions of Arunachal Pradesh for centuries, got special mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' on Sunday
The Hidden Treasure on Saturday organised a ‘Lalitpur Heritage Walk’ in association with the Nepal Tourism Board and Museum of Nepali Arts (MoNA) to promote cultural tourism
New Delhi's prestigious St Stephen's College has invited applications from Bangladeshi students to join the three-year bachelor's programme at the premium education institution
Mesmerised by its natural beauty, Bollywood film producers, who are on a visit to Kashmir, nave expressed their desire to shoot their upcoming films in the Valley
What makes the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, stand apart from other temporal heads, is his firm commitment to reforms and accepting change as part of the organic development of religion
