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Gaza 2021 & Israel's crime: An apartheid déjà vu

Gaza 2021 & Israel's crime: An apartheid déjà vu

Haidar Eid 2021-05-18 20:40:51

In 2019, I wrote a piece for Al Jazeera, in which I reiterated that we, Palestinians of Gaza, have already made our choice. I wrote: "We will not die a slow and dishonourable death while thanking our...

Covid-19 in the second year -- breeds hope and despair

Covid-19 in the second year -- breeds hope and despair

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA 2021-05-17 21:06:20

Covid-19 is now in the second year wrecking havoc on people all over the world. While we see a steady decline of infections and casualty in the United States and Europe, the virus has been killing peo...

Customer-centric approach to sustain and flourish

Customer-centric approach to sustain and flourish

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2021-05-17 20:57:36

Customer-centric culture is the true long-term accomplishment and sustainability strategy for a profit or non-profit organisation. Conceptually it is about putting the targeted customers at the forefr...

Long lost childhood games in Bangaldesh

Long lost childhood games in Bangaldesh

Tahseen Nower 2021-05-14 16:38:49

In the age of online and offline gaming, games played in open fields are disappearing rapidly. But there was a time when games that needed actual running and moving with real people existed. Those gam...

Grill or fry? Let’s end the debate, once and for all

Grill or fry? Let’s end the debate, once and for all

NAWAL NAZ 2021-05-13 13:36:43

Food is our soul food for a very good reason. Be it the unctuous umami flavour of a medium-rare steak or the soft, ever-so-fragile potatoes in a kachchi biryani, it is the energy we need after a frust...

President Biden's State of the Union address: Big ideas with huge strategic importance

President Biden's State of the Union address: Big ideas with huge strategic importance

M Humayun Kabir 2021-05-11 21:20:53

Traditionally, the State of the Union address is a domestic affair of the United States. It can however transcend the domestic boundary when the United States considers itself under severe pressure fr...

Pipeline for cricket team: A non-existent necessity

Pipeline for cricket team: A non-existent necessity

AHMED TANVIR 2021-05-11 12:42:04

Every time Shakib Al Hasan misses out on a series due to injury concerns or personal issues, the team management lose their mind while looking for a replacement. Admittedly, it is true that to find a...

Misapplication of fund causes bad loan

Misapplication of fund causes bad loan

Kazi Atik 2021-05-10 21:27:24

Commercial banks play a vital role in our national as well as global economy. Besides providing customer related routine services like taking deposit, giving loan for various purposes to clients, tr...

The quarter-life crises nobody tells you about

The quarter-life crises nobody tells you about

KANIZ FATEMA 2021-05-10 15:08:05

People read about challenges of adolescence in textbooks when they are in elementary school. Or they hear about it from parents or others around them. And that helps them wade through this stage of li...

GDP versus lasting growth rooted in love

GDP versus lasting growth rooted in love

Graham Peebles 2021-05-09 21:08:10

In what feels like a throwback to another era, banks and big business are once again talking about 'growth', and economic development. Both of which amount to the same thing to the men and women of mo...

Are festive vibes of Ramadan gone?

Are festive vibes of Ramadan gone?

RASSIQ AZIZ KABIR 2021-05-09 10:59:48

Ramadan in Bangladesh, like any other Muslim majority country, is quite different from other months of the year. The food culture changes totally and all of a sudden people begin to eat jilapi, beguni...

The spectre of a coup d'etat in France: An ugly manifestation of Islamophobia

The spectre of a coup d'etat in France: An ugly manifestation of Islamophobia

Muhammad Mahmood 2021-05-08 21:49:26

A political crisis is brewing in France over an open  letter written by 20 retired  generals in the neofascist magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Current Values) on April 21 this year.  The le...

Budget FY22: Deficit financing and public spending

Budget FY22: Deficit financing and public spending

Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan 2021-05-06 21:50:08

At a time when the government should opt for increasing public expenditure to accelerate economic recovery, it appears to have taken measures that are not commensurate with the needs of the time. As o...

Centrally registering the VAT & a critique

Centrally registering the VAT & a critique

Swapan Kumar Bala   2021-05-05 21:25:57

In a recent article titled "Central VAT registration in Bangladesh: An appraisal" (published in the Financial Express on April 29, 2021), Dr. Md Abdur Rouf has rightly pointed out present limitation...

Recovery through regional cooperation

Recovery through regional cooperation

So Jeong Lee and Ruhimat Soerakoesoemah 2021-05-05 21:06:27

Last month, the world marked the first anniversary since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 virus as a pandemic. Throughout the year, we witnessed how a virus can bring forth a...

Accessibility to the Covid-19 vaccine under the intellectual property regime

Accessibility to the Covid-19 vaccine under the intellectual property regime

Mohammad Towhidul Islam   2021-05-04 21:08:44

In a recent TV talk show, two discussants involved with the medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, were discussing the uncertainty of getting the Covid-19 vaccine. One of them asked why they wrre...

Bangladesh cricket: Why expectation and reality remain poles apart

Bangladesh cricket: Why expectation and reality remain poles apart

AHMED TANVIR 2021-05-04 12:33:59

Every time Mustafiz bowls a good spell with deliveries fizzing past the bat and troubling the batsmen, the whole nation starts chanting our old Fizz is back; every time Mushfiq plays a blinder as a ke...

US prepares to fight wars amid surging Covid-19 infections

US prepares to fight wars amid surging Covid-19 infections

 Muhammad Mahmood 2021-05-02 21:30:18

The United States (US) under the Biden Administration is getting on a war footing with  China and Russia as the world is experiencing a new surge in Covid-19 infections, especially in countries s...

President Biden says goodbye to Afghanistan

President Biden says goodbye to Afghanistan

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2021-04-30 20:56:38

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday April 14 that the United States would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 on the 20th anniversary of Afghanistan invasion. In a sober...

Studying economics: Science-arts confusion

Studying economics: Science-arts confusion

SURAIYA BEGUM RUHI 2021-04-30 13:44:09

Bangladesh offers different streams of education such as science, commerce and arts at the secondary and higher secondary level. And the social order of precedence puts science first, commerce second...

Growth in terms of GDP -- no indicator of overall wellbeing

Growth in terms of GDP -- no indicator of overall wellbeing

Asjadul Kibria 2021-04-29 21:21:32

Although businesses are reeling under the pandemic, it appears that the country's policymakers find little to worry about economic growth. They are of the view that the economy is growing despite all...

Shankha Ghosh: Dissent beneath lyricism

Shankha Ghosh: Dissent beneath lyricism

Shihab Sarkar 2021-04-29 21:01:29

Poet Shankha Ghosh is no more. He died in Kolkata on last April 21. He was 89. Due to his nearly ineffable links to Bangladesh since his birth, Shankha Ghosh could claim himself to be one nurturing th...

Reflections on Bangladesh's development journey

Reflections on Bangladesh's development journey

Tanjim-Ul-Islam 2021-04-29 20:58:09

In order to commemorate the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) has published two volumes of Readings in B...

Livable cities: Utopia or a possibility?

Livable cities: Utopia or a possibility?

MEHENAZ SULTANA 2021-04-29 15:48:30

Those of us who have grown up around science fiction novels are often found disappointed as cars do not fly yet, or wonder why the world has not yet become a sparkling utopia of metallic structures. H...

Why big data is all the buzz for statisticians

Why big data is all the buzz for statisticians

Irina Bernal, Tanja Sejersen, Ronald Jansen and Niels Ploug   2021-04-27 21:13:03

Big data permeates many aspects of people's lives, from daily communication and interactions, to shopping and consumption and the medical treatments they receive. Big data is also transforming the w...

How Covid-19 takes the gaming industry to another level

How Covid-19 takes the gaming industry to another level

KHALED MAHMUD 2021-04-27 12:22:49

The World Health Organization has declared video games an effective way to stop the spread of the coronavirus, one year after adding ‘gaming disorder’ to its list of addictive behaviours,...

Ensuring racial and ethnic justice

Ensuring racial and ethnic justice

Muhammad Zamir 2021-04-25 22:16:05

The world continues to watch carefully the trial being carried out pertaining to the death last year of African-American man George Floyd, whose death triggered global protests against racism and poli...

Was Parasite’s Oscar win a cultural breakthrough?

Was Parasite’s Oscar win a cultural breakthrough?

SADMAN FAKID 2021-04-25 11:34:51

As the Academy Awards are about to kick off, people are curious about knowing whether the legacy of the previous year’s winner, ‘Parasite’, which is the first foreign-language film t...

China records 18.3 per cent growth in the 1st quarter 2021

China records 18.3 per cent growth in the 1st quarter 2021

Muhammad Mahmood 2021-04-24 20:41:10

China's economy grew at a record 18.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2021-- the fastest pace on record in gross domestic product (GDP)  growth since quarterly records began in 1992. This is a m...

Male breast cancer: A lesser-known threat to life

Male breast cancer: A lesser-known threat to life

SHAERI NAWAR 2021-04-24 13:30:45

If a question is put to the general population of Bangladesh right now about males suffering from breast cancer, most of us would be a bit sceptical whereas some of us might even laugh it off as a hil...