News On the 8th of March, 2014, Malaysia Airlines confirmed and issued a press statement about the loss of a Boeing 777-200 aircraft from Kuala Lumpur heading to China. Concurrent with this announcement, various media around the world also covered this news regarding the lost plane carrying 239 passengers including the crew. Experts around the world too gave their insights and helped in the investigation of the loss of the…

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…