Samina Akhter

Samina Akhter is a Dhaka-based columnist and women and human rights activist.

October 23, 2026

Musk commits $366 million to US midterms as SpaceX and Tesla face key government decisions

Elon Musk has committed roughly $366 million to the 2026 US midterm elections, directing much of his political spending towards Republican candidates as his companies face major decisions over federal contracts, regulation

Business

Meta shares fall nearly 7% as AI spending pushes free cash flow into negative territory

Meta shares fell nearly 7% on Thursday after the social media company reported negative free cash flow for the third quarter and increased the lower end of its expected annual capital expenditure, intensifying investor concerns over the cost of its

October 23, 2026

Nvidia chief warns capital shortages threaten Europe’s AI infrastructure expansion

Business

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has warned that shortages of capital are holding back the rapid expansion of specialised cloud computing companies, despite soaring

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Son Speaks to Her for First Time in Five Years

Diplomacy/Human Rights

Kim Aris, the youngest son of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has spoken to his mother for the first time in

Over Six Hundred Were Killed by US Police in 6 Months

July 23, 2023

Human Rights/United States

Syed Faisal Arif, a Bangladeshi student of the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States, was shot dead by the police last January. Ever since Faisal, a

Time to Deescalate Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Tension

September 22, 2022

Bangladesh

Myanmar’s persistent use of mortars to invade Bangladeshi land amounts to a declaration of war on Myanmar’s part and a diplomatic blunder on the part of the government of Bangladesh. In the

Tense Border: On that Unintentional Error

September 5, 2022

Bangladesh/Columns

For the last few days tension has been growing along the Myanmar border with Bangladesh which has also spread among locals at Naikhongchari and Ghumdhum border areas. According to media reports, Myanmar