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When sports are at their magnificent best

When sports are at their magnificent best

Nilratan Halder 2019-07-20 00:00:00

That the championship match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, 2019 held at the Lord's, cricket's Mecca, has been dubbed the best One-Day International (ODI) match ever played is no...

Linking rising temperature to productivity

Linking rising temperature to productivity

Prof. Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2019-07-13 00:00:00

Rising temperature increases incidence of heat stress and health risks leading to reduced productivity. In its new report titled 'World Employment and Social Outlook 2018', the International Labour Or...

Taking the route of innovation

Taking the route of innovation

Prottoya Chowdhury 2019-07-13 00:00:00

For nearly two decades, Bangladesh has blindly put its faith into the hands of the RMG (ready-made garments) sector, and indeed this sector has been the cardinal impetus for the economic prosperity th...

Travelogue: Dhaka to Kushtia

Travelogue: Dhaka to Kushtia

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2019-07-13 00:00:00

Since I visited Bangladesh in October of 2009, accompanied by my wife, I found this time there has been diametrical change,  good or bad. A huge number of flyovers have been built in and around D...

Charting the course in cryptocurrency era

Charting the course in cryptocurrency era

Md. Mashiur Rahman and Ayon Dutta 2019-07-13 00:00:00

Cryptocurrencies are s a form of digital money that is designed to be secure and, in many cases, anonymous. They are used in online transactions and the internet uses cryptography, the process of conv...

Adapting to the way of life in Dhaka

Adapting to the way of life in Dhaka

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-07-06 00:00:00

Before 2016, commuting was almost a nightmare in Dhaka. Getting on a public bus or other transports during peak hours was near to impossible. Chances of finding a CNG-driven scooter or a taxi that wil...

It is not time to say goodbye!

It is not time to say goodbye!

Asjadul Kibria 2019-07-06 00:00:00

The news of sudden death of Dr Toufiq M Seraj was a bolt from the blue, no doubt. Country's one of the leading real-estate businessmen and urban planners died aboard a Doha-bound flight from Dhaka in...

Saving Arghya from encroachment

Saving Arghya from encroachment

Nilratan Halder 2019-07-06 00:00:00

Arghya. What a beautiful name! Meaning 'offering', it resonates like the soft retreating sound of a symphony. It is the name of an island -not an island in the sea or river but a road island at the co...

Interpreting Swiss bank data

Interpreting Swiss bank data

Asjadul Kibria 2019-07-03 20:58:51

The proposal to whiten black money by investing in land didn't finally get through in national parliament. Nevertheless, the legal scope to whiten black money by investing in apartments and buildings...

Exploring the heart of a city

Exploring the heart of a city

Nilratan Halder 2019-06-28 21:15:40

Whenever people are on a visit to a city in a different land, invariably they tend to compare between it and their own. Even a cursory glance reveals some similarities and dissimilarities to those not...

Sazzad Qadir: A versatile litterateur

Sazzad Qadir: A versatile litterateur

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2019-06-28 21:14:29

One of the leading Bengali Poets of the 1960s and a founding member of Bangladesh Jatiya Kobita Parishad (National Poetry Council) Sazzad Qadir left for eternity all of a sudden on April 06, 2017. He...

The damage mobile gaming does to kids

The damage mobile gaming does to kids

Al Nahian Avro 2019-06-28 21:12:22

Nowadays, it is indisputably impossible to keep going without technology but we shouldn't unlearn that it is a double-edged sword which can bring the heaven and also can drive us to the hell. The mobi...

The melting glaciers on the Himalayas

The melting glaciers on the Himalayas

Prof. Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2019-06-28 21:11:25

Glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to do before. The event is being shown to the scientists now by the Cold War era spy satellite images. According to a study p...

On journeys — forever

On journeys — forever

Nilratan Halder 2019-06-21 21:15:57

For some life's journey begins with a bang, for others quite insignificantly and still for others modestly. When a boy or a girl born in an unenlightened home of a remote village tentatively ventures...

What if Darwin wore VR glasses?

What if Darwin wore VR glasses?

Roosmarijn Cornelissen 2019-06-21 21:15:07

Today most people think of gaming, virtual reality glasses and video when asked about virtual reality. The concepts of virtual reality in these areas have been around for some years, but what if we lo...

The health risk on hot days

The health risk on hot days

Shishir Reza 2019-06-21 21:14:00

With mercury going high at this particular time of the year in Bangladesh, the spectre of heat-induced diseases is looming over the populace in the country. Incidents of ailments like diarrhoea, fever...

Tobacco: Taking on the silent killer

Tobacco: Taking on the silent killer

-- 2019-06-21 21:12:35

Highlighting the health and additional risks associated with tobacco use, and advocating effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption, the 'World No Tobacco Day' was observed in Bangladesh on June...

Answer lies in ratifying convention

Answer lies in ratifying convention

Aminul Hoque Tushar 2019-06-14 21:41:12

The C189 Domestic Workers Convention 2011 is a unique international instrument to protect the rights of domestic workers across the world. Bangladesh signed the convention, but it is yet to ratify it....

A mother's letters  to her son

A mother's letters to her son

Shihab Sarkar 2019-06-14 21:39:51

Letters-based literature occupies a distinctive place in today's corpus of literary activity. Some collections have long been among the widely read books as part of the broader literary arena. In th...

Effect of global warming on human life

Effect of global warming on human life

Shishir Reza 2019-06-14 21:37:23

Global warming is the effect when the earth heats up. It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapour, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth's atmosp...

Making a difference with fintech

Making a difference with fintech

Istiaque Ahmed Shawon 2019-06-14 21:36:17

As we enter into a start-up-focused society, aided by technology and finance, there is a commonly-used term, Fintech, which has added a new dimension to the financial sector. Fintech has opened a new...

Why air pollution an economic problem

Why air pollution an economic problem

Shishir Reza 2019-06-07 20:55:36

The World Environment Day is observed every year on June 5. This year, the theme of the day is "Beat Air Pollution". In general, the level of air pollution may be found higher during the day when most...

Believing beyond belief

Believing beyond belief

Pamelia Khaled 2019-06-07 20:54:06

When he was seven years old, he had Ewing's Sarcoma on his left femur which he could luckily overcome in Canada after a rigorous treatment at Sick Kids Hospital Toronto. He is now a doctor. Rapha&eum...

Taking BD-Russia ties to new height

Taking BD-Russia ties to new height

M Azizur Rahman 2019-06-07 20:52:01

Bangladesh and Russia have an enormous potential for deepening cooperation in the innovation-driven high-tech sector, for example, implementing joint projects in the field of Artificial Intelligence (...

Eid-ul Fitr: Essence, teaching and social connotation

Eid-ul Fitr: Essence, teaching and social connotation

Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed 2019-06-07 20:51:09

The word Eid comes from Arabic; which means frequent coming. Again Eid denotes happiness, joy and pleasure. Again, the social connotation of Eid means festival. Eid-Ul-Fitr is the festival of breaking...

Bangladesh's mining, oil, gas sectors   and Russia's AI-based solutions

Bangladesh's mining, oil, gas sectors and Russia's AI-based solutions

Ritu Sharma 2019-05-31 21:35:35

After its ground-breaking partnership with Bangladesh to give the country its maiden nuclear power reactor, Russia is exploring the prospects of deepening cooperation in the field of Artificial Intell...

Genocide for spice

Genocide for spice

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2019-05-31 21:34:17

Genocides were perpetrated, are being perpetrated and will be perpetrated as long as the mankind exists. Genocide is an international crime perpetrated with the intention to destroy in whole or in par...

Opportunities and challenges for Bangladesh

Opportunities and challenges for Bangladesh

Aminul Hoque Tushar 2019-05-31 21:33:15

The remittances earned by overseas workers have been considered a major economic stake of the country. As an overpopulated and poverty-stricken country, Bangladesh took the opportunity to transfer its...

Class analyst: Global income inequality

Class analyst: Global income inequality

Chris Wellisz in Washington, DC 2019-05-27 21:02:07

As a child growing up in Communist Yugoslavia, Branko Milanovic witnessed the protests of 1968, when students occupied the campus of the University of Belgrade and hoisted banners reading "Down with t...

Mystery of rising female  migrants' deaths

Mystery of rising female migrants' deaths

Arafat Ara 2019-05-24 20:35:01

Suicidal incidents among outbound female house helps are growing over the years for factors like hostile working conditions. An estimated 44 Bangladeshi women committed suicide in the past three years...