It may have proved to be the make-or-mar debate in the US presidential election held at the university of Nevada ,Las Vegas on

After six consecut ive series wins against world class cricketing sides and 11months of hibernation, the stage was set for three ODIs against an improving Afghan side, an associate member of the ICC. The latter played reasonably well against us but we did outclass them in the last match of the series.

The appearance of swallows at the beginning of summer has helped craft a wonderful English idiom: “One swallow doesn't make a summer.” All it warns against is forming 'a general opinion or judgment on the basis of a single event, remark, etc.'

Let's begin at the beginning: Lester Holt, thought to be a Republican by political belief (so what!) was appointed Moderator for Monday's

Next Monday, we will see the first of the three debates that are billed to bring out the best in the two candidates' competency, knowledge, leadership qualities and abilities to defend their policy positions, plans and visions for their incumbency.

The all-win success story of our U-16 girls' football team at the group championship stage has been a head turner. But with their entry into the top eight league which pits them against teams like Japan and South Korea, their struggle has only begun. They have a long way to go.

We have heard of a political banter of Churchillian fierceness. Of Stanley Baldwin, a former British prime minister, Winston

There have been high- profile and well-orchestrated series of visits made to the region and beyond by top US dignitaries of late. Even as US Secretary of State John Kerry was in the midst of a whirlwind tour of Bangladesh, President Obama embarked on his valedictory odyssey across the Asia-Pacific region. Optimistically, if a little nostalgically, this may seem to rhyme with his geo-political pivot to Asia.

Lately, Pakistan-Bangladesh relations have been in the news, mostly for negative reasons, and very sparsely for the positive ones.

One can thus feel in one's bones the pain and trauma the wild elephant, separated from its herd by severe flooding in Assam, must have gone through all the way down to Bangladesh.

We are a land-short country, somewhat proverbially, as it seems. Bangladesh does not exactly have a galloping population but a

Whatever institutionalisation has taken place among the well-run private universities benefitting the cause of higher education should not even be unwittingly put in peril.

Brawn, brain and tears sum up the tone, temper and texture of the Republican and Democrat national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively.

The truth of the matter is that military intervention in politics or attempted usurpation of power is an imposition on the people and is never supported by them.

It is true that many a terrorist attack may have been prevented due to good police and Rab work. What is equally true is an ample room for improvement

Britain is slowly getting its breath back after the last week's seismic earthquake of the Brexit verdict in a referendum.

Avijit Mukherjee, son of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Lok Sabha MP, recently on a private visit to Dhaka, has left a good impression by his clarity of thought on a rather tangled issue.

Six days after the single-handed carnage at an Orlando gay nightclub, a coherent but incredibly bizarre narrative is emerging out of the nocturnal shadows.

He wouldn't yield to pressures from sponsors, exerted twice before a heavyweight championship encounter to ostensibly distance himself from Islam. His association with Malcom X and hiring a Muslim woman cook for his camp miffed some potential sponsors threatening not to back Ali.

Belying speculations at the anti Trinamool camp for a 'vote for change' like the West Bengalees accounted for in 2011, Mamata has swept to a second term with a powerful mandate.