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Women's football team's triumph

Women's football team's triumph

Nilratan Halder 2022-09-24 00:06:05

The jubilation over the Bangladesh women's football team's triumph in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship 2022 is quite natural. When the men's football team is all frustra...

2022 SDG Gender Index

2022 SDG Gender Index

Soma Dhar 2022-09-24 00:05:22

Data play an important role in determining policies, laws and budget decisions with a view to acquire gender equality under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Amid the pressing need for tools t...

Majestic, magical, mythical - the Swiss Supreme tennis won't forget!

Majestic, magical, mythical - the Swiss Supreme tennis won't forget!

Neel Rahman 2022-09-19 15:02:58

There are good athletes. There are great athletes. There are the greatest athletes to grace the game. And then, there's somebody like Roger Federer. Someone who is beyond logic. Someone you can't mea...

A journey back  in time in  the lap of Nature

A journey back in time in the lap of Nature

Nilratan Halder 2022-09-17 23:46:04

"No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river and he is not the same man", said Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. To ordinary unthinking mortals, this is rather c...

Shining light on vertical farming

Shining light on vertical farming

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-09-17 23:44:17

Food security has become one of the major concerns in recent times. The prolonged Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have worsened the supply chain of food stuffs. Import-dependent countri...

Reform and opening-up, dual engine for China's economic growth

Reform and opening-up, dual engine for China's economic growth

-- 2022-09-16 13:11:32

China has risen to become the world's second largest economy and leading trader. China has also emerged as the greatest contributor to the global economic recovery since 2008. Nevertheless, the U.S....

US Open men's final 2022: Alcaraz vs Ruud for their first Grand Slam

US Open men's final 2022: Alcaraz vs Ruud for their first Grand Slam

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-09-11 18:13:48

It started as a 5-way battle. Now it’s down to 2. Medvevdev, Nadal, Alcaraz, Tsitsipas, Ruud all had equal say to it. Before the start of the US Open, everyone knew that the winner would be ran...

A suggested model

A suggested model

Md Abu Sayed Siddique 2022-09-10 00:16:54

In my previous two articles, I highlighted two important procurement system issues. In first article, I attempted to provide a general understanding of procurement, specifically how to minimize costs...

Sheikh Hasina: A plinth of success

Sheikh Hasina: A plinth of success

Syed Mozaffar Ahmed 2022-09-10 00:14:49

In the conundrum of state anarchy when all the hopes of a sovereign nation were mired in a trail of despair, an orphan lady emerged as a saviour to restore the constitutional shape of Bangladesh. Basi...

A Year of Dreams

A Year of Dreams

Prottay Roy Chowdhury 2022-09-02 23:11:48

April 21, 2022. It was during the month of Ramadan. Tahsin Islam Nabiha started climbing down the stairs at 4 a.m. for Sehri. But moments later, Nabiha was awestruck to see the entire downstairs decor...

Is the young generation becoming robotic?

Is the young generation becoming robotic?

Nilratan Halder 2022-09-02 23:10:26

One common complaint against the young generation is that it is growing tech-savvy at the cost of emotional attachment, susceptibility and the overall quality of heart. In other words, young people...

Off the tracks of tradition and culture

Off the tracks of tradition and culture

Nilratan Halder 2022-08-27 00:08:03

The nation observes the anniversary of death of the country's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam today (Saturday). Apparently there is nothing wrong with this statement. But does the nation do so? Are th...

Since  you are a  gentleman

Since you are a gentleman

Mohammad Kazi Mamun 2022-08-27 00:06:50

I am so happy that I'm alive… in one piece and short. I am in a world of shit, yes …but I'm alive. (Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick) Few days ago, I sank in the deep sea of a book whi...

Thickening fruity air

Thickening fruity air

Sonjoy Ghosh 2022-08-19 20:50:34

It will definitely be very difficult for someone to say whether he or she has ever seen any nest of birds on the branches of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Mahogany, Raintree and Shishu. These exotic hardwood sp...

Changes  people in  this city  rarely  notice

Changes people in this city rarely notice

Nilratan Halder 2022-08-19 20:49:49

What a contrasting weather Dhaka, one of the world's top unliveable cities, is now going through! Scorching heat today, tomorrow the sky is overcast with clouds and even there may be drizzles. Or, it...

Bangabandhu's assassination . . . and then the long darkness

Bangabandhu's assassination . . . and then the long darkness

Syed Badrul Ahsan 2022-08-14 23:01:53

It was the end of a beautiful dream for all of us in this land. Decades after his sudden, violent passing, with the ravaging ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic yet raging all over the world, w...

Brig General Jamil: An epitome of duty & courage

Brig General Jamil: An epitome of duty & courage

Enayetullah Khan 2022-08-14 22:59:38

The dawn was about to break on August 15, 1975 when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary, the then Colonel Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had been attac...

Burial in his native village

Burial in his native village

S A Karim 2022-08-14 22:56:34

As Mushtaque spoke, corpses of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members lay scattered all over the house [32 Dhanmondi, Dhaka]. Just before dawn of the following day, the 16th, all of...

Bangabandhu's thoughts on economic freedom are still relevant

Bangabandhu's thoughts on economic freedom are still relevant

Dr. Atiur Rahman 2022-08-14 22:42:07

Apparently gone are the days of great moderation of high growth and low inflation in today's world. The stagflation era with low growth and high inflation followed by a severe recession is looming lar...

Post-pandemic transformation of  human psyche

Post-pandemic transformation of human psyche

Nilratan Halder 2022-08-13 00:02:52

Even though the epidemic is yet to be over with its residual mild and isolated visitations still giving people harrowing time here and there, a phenomenal post-pandemic transformation has already take...

Procurement Factors

Procurement Factors

Md Abu Sayed Siddique 2022-08-13 00:00:06

In my previous article, I talked about how procurement is generally understood and how important it is for catching the attention of both government and non-government officials. It also offered sugge...

With Taiwan drills, Xi tries to salvage Pelosi crisis

With Taiwan drills, Xi tries to salvage Pelosi crisis

Reuters 2022-08-07 17:10:06

Chinese President Xi Jinping may not have been able to stop Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, but he ordered his country's military to rehearse a much more aggressive step: a blockade crucial to taking...

How to minimise costs and maximise benefits

How to minimise costs and maximise benefits

Md Abu Sayed Siddique 2022-08-06 00:00:09

Procurement is one of the key professional tasks of any government or non-government organisation. One of the important aspects of performing such a task is the sound knowledge of the individuals invo...

The role of international community

The role of international community

Khandakar Qudrat-I Elahi 2022-07-29 22:26:52

Is the Russian invasion of Ukraine a crisis? The answer depends upon how we understand the situation. Here in Canada, I notice few reactions among political and civilian elites or the general public....

Important to know when one has to  call it a day

Important to know when one has to call it a day

Nilratan Halder 2022-07-29 22:25:47

Games and sports imitate life in more ways than none. There are struggles to rise to the pinnacle or pole position. Against the sweetest success, there are heart-breaking defeats too. Even the world's...

Win Tk 50,000 Media Fellowship for Journalists under the JANO project

Win Tk 50,000 Media Fellowship for Journalists under the JANO project

FE Online 2022-07-25 17:06:16

The Joint Action for Nutrition Outcome (JANO) project is managed by several prestigious organisations including Plan International Bangladesh and funded by the European Union and Austrian Development...

The attention it requires

The attention it requires

Mohammad Shahidul Islam & Rahnuma Masud 2022-07-23 00:00:53

We all are well aware of the terms morality and ethics. Ethic is a set of rules which influence day-to-day human behaviour, actions, and decisions and form the choice of what should be done. We got th...

The miracle baby deserves  all the cares she needs

The miracle baby deserves all the cares she needs

Nilratan Halder 2022-07-23 00:00:42

If her birth could not be in a more unnatural situation, her survival is perhaps the miracle of a century. Her mother along with her father and six-year-old sister was run over by a speeding truck. Th...

A Bookesque Voyage: Book recommendation based on locations

A Bookesque Voyage: Book recommendation based on locations

Juairah Jahan 2022-07-20 17:41:54

From Hogwarts of the infamous Harry Potter series to 221B Baker Street of Sherlock Holmes to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – we have all imagined visitin...

An introduction to Bangladesh's energy sector

An introduction to Bangladesh's energy sector

Mohammed Humayun Kabir 2022-07-16 00:12:08

In Bangladesh, Sabuj Younus is a well-known journalist and author. While a student at Dhaka University in late 90s of the last century, he began his journalism career. He has worked as a journalist fo...