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Globally, people shared similar reactions to the results of 2016 US Presidential election - 'Trumped', 'stumped', 'stunned', 'shocked' and 'unnerved'. It seems that Donald Trump achieved the impossible and rocked...
WATCHING television for long hours can be harmful. Many of us watch TV for long hours without knowing its serious health hazards. Watching TV long time is a sedentary work...
TOBACCO is a silent menace least understood by people as long as they are not struck down themselves by its deadly impact on health. The campaign against tobacco is on...
RAJSHAHI Kings made light work of Khulna Titans completing a seven-wicket victory at Mirpur to reach the final against Dhaka Dynamites. In front of a small crowd at the Shere...
Thousands of articles in newspapers and hundreds of seminars and round tables on nagging traffic jams in Dhaka city in the past have seemingly failed to provide any relief to...
The furore over the acquittal of the accused in the Rid Pharma paracetamol syrup case is not for nothing. It is not the 'not guilty' verdict that is in question....
As the world commemorated the World Competition Day on December 05, 2016, it is critical to note that four years after the enactment of the Competition Act-2012, the country has...
RAJSHAHI Kings made light work of Khulna Titans completing a seven-wicket victory at Mirpur to reach the final against Dhaka Dynamites. In front of a small crowd at the Shere...
WATCHING television for long hours can be harmful. Many of us watch TV for long hours without knowing its serious health hazards. Watching TV long time is a sedentary work...
TOBACCO is a silent menace least understood by people as long as they are not struck down themselves by its deadly impact on health. The campaign against tobacco is on...
Far from being criminal or illegitimate, foreign policy reversals have, in fact, been popular across history and countries: it is one way to acknowledge errors, or reinvent policy approaches vis-à-vis...
We do not know exactly how Hitchcock would have viewed the current trend in Bangladesh of making nests for wild birds. The great movie-maker became famous for his scary film...
The Impact of Women's Political Leadership on Democracy and Development by Farah Deeba Chowdhury, Margaret Wilson, Colleen Lowe Morna and Mukayi Makaya Magarangom Published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, December 2013...
KILLING of Bangladeshis along Bangladesh-India border by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) is worrisome when there is an excellent bilateral relation between the two countries. Even many Indian human...
THE number of autistic children in our country is quite high, but unfortunately we do not see many government schools for such children. Autism is a neurodevelopment disorder and with...
IT is too well known to elaborate that tobacco is harmful for our health. It is actually wasteful physically and financially. I have learnt from my experience that some friends...
Bangladesh has the lowest land-man ratio in the world, which was estimated by the FAO in 2013 to be 0.06 hectares per person. Land scarcity relative to demand is showing...
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) maintains that reforms in several areas of the economy are necessary for achieving double-digit growth. The BIDA told the Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) on...
PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the construction of the first ever Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) commonly known as Metro Rail and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Dhaka." The metro...
ON December 10, every year the world observes the International Anti-corruption Day. Corruption has become a part of our society and when we see any honest person in a government...
GOING through the 'Facebook', this writer came across the following pragmatic and fascinating example of the usual prospects for the various calibres of students and their future prospects that gave...
The 53rd death anniversary of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardi was observed on December 05. He is not well known to the present generation. Two-thirds of today's population was born after Suhrawardi...
DHAKA Dynamites and Khulna Titans will play the first qualifier and Chittagong Vikings and Rajshahi Kings will play the eliminator match in BPL 2016 today. Both the matches are likely...
A local Bangla newspaper reported recently that imported big-size garlic was selling at Tk.180 per kg in wholesale market whereas locally produced small size garlic was selling at Tk.100 to...
It is good to know that wonder boy of our cricket Mustafizur has recovered and is now expected to play an away series against New Zealand. It will be a...
Latin America is not included in China's One Belt, One Road initiative, but Beijing seems to have surprised many observers by moving closer to the region to develop industrialisation and...
Aid flows made huge impact through the Marshall Plan of the US to reconstruct war-ravaged Europe immediately after World War II. After the war, the global political structure underwent change...
"There's a kind of hush all over the world . . ." - sang Peter Noone of the Hermans Hermits half a century ago. That was when the world was...
LEADERSHIP and power are often mistaken as a synonym. The fact is that power is a part of the leadership process. Leadership is defined by the ability of a person...
THE Bangladesh Premier League is a month-long cricket extravaganza and the cricket enthusiasts throng around TV sets or swarm in the stadium to watch their stars in action. The tournament...
IN the last 11 months of this year, around 3,080 died and around 8,000 injured in road accidents. Although the number of accidents has reduced compared to the last year,...
The cities in Indian subcontinent emerged in the last four to six hundred years ago. Their emergence was necessitated by the need of the conquerors/rulers to expand their political and...
The Rohingyas are again under attack in Myanmar. The New York Times has correctly observed that "Myanmar has long persecuted the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, denying it basic rights to...
The country has stepped into the last week of the pre-winter Bengali month of autumn, Agrahayan. Although the cold season is yet to be in the air, people have started...
Bangladesh slipped three steps back to stand 123rd in this year's Enabling Trade Index (ETI) of the World Economic Forum (WEF) mainly for underperformance on three counts. The country failed...
As in other developed and developing countries, financial crime is a growing concern for the policy makers, banks and other stakeholders of the financial sector of Bangladesh. A recent study...
AT office you must have seen some people getting more benefit than others not because of their ability to work but their ability to convince their bosses in some ways....
ACCORDING to the annual report of the University Grants Commission (UGC), 22 per cent of the teachers at Bangladesh's public universities remain absent from their classes on an average. Few...
The 13-point proposal for formation of a new Election Commission on expiry of the present one on February 08, 2017, put forward by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia...
Instability in a neighbouring country is bound to have its fallout in countries surrounding it. So when Rohingyas are persecuted in the Rakhine State of Myanmar now and then, the...
Dholaikhal extends from the traffic signal of Johnson Road to Narinda of old Dhaka. About 50,000 light engineering workshops are there. Workers in these workshops have hardly any formal training....
The European Union (EU) recently drew global attention for its reluctance to fulfill its obligations under Article 15 of the Protocol on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)....
The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus. Some 1.2 million people died...
Broadly, a financial crime could either be an internal fraud committed by the bank's own workforce or an external fraud committed by a customer along with a third party. Any...
FACEBOOK has a staggering number of subscribers. Currently the number is 1.79 billion. It is simply mind-boggling! We see many of the present generation are facebook addicts and other social...
JATRABARI intersection is an important link for Dhaka city. But accidents occur under the Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover of the road due to countless cracks and potholes. Different sections of...
The projected remittance inflow estimated at $25 billion in half a decade's time is music to the ear! Your auditory nerves may be soothed by it despite the lilt being...
A set of 15 recommendations is placed for improving the standard of education at the secondary level. The most important suggestion concerns slicing the number of subjects taught and examinations...
Myanmar might have to brace for yet another spate of global condemnation given the continued influx of its Rohingya citizens into Bangladesh. Dhaka, too, has started feeling the heat of...
Planet Earth is in dire straits. Natural resources have been overexploited. A significant loss of biodiversity is occurring, while a massive rise in carbon levels is leading to climate change...
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