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SADMAN SAKIB 2020-12-14 14:21:57
It is often said that if you want to firm up your body, head to the gym, and if you want to exercise your brain, listen to music. In Bangladesh, listening to music is an integral part of our life. Mus...
Ferdaus Ara Begum 2020-12-13 20:02:45
Covid-19 is probably the most challenging experience for us creating so much of despair and catastrophe. In the past there were a number virus attacks throughout the globe but Covi...
Ayman Chowdhury 2020-12-13 11:47:10
Football fans in Asia have a common characteristic when it comes to supporting football teams. These fans, although they love their respective European clubs, tend to have a soft spot for certain othe...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-12-12 20:13:12
President elect Joe Biden announced his economic team last week. He hopes his six person economic team can guide the US back to solid economic footing. The president elect referred to th...
Syed Badrul Ahsan 2020-12-12 20:09:42
The report is stark. It is concerning. After a year of living through dangerous times, the danger being the overwhelming presence of the coronavirus pandemic in our lives, with all its ramifications,...
Adit Shayan 2020-12-12 12:53:25
After radio, when television first came to Bangladesh, it changed the landscape for media. Satellite channels brought more options and TV-watching freedom for the viewers. What is newer are streaming...
Kayenat Kabir 2020-12-11 20:59:54
By awarding the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has shed the much-needed spotlight on hunger and confli...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2020-12-10 20:43:07
The destruction of the Twin-Tower in New York on September 11, 2001 caught the American intelligence services including the CIA, FBI by total surprise. The political leadership was in shock and dumb...
IFTIDA ISLAM EME 2020-12-10 17:51:52
Gender pay gap – the difference between the median earnings of men and women – is widening around the world with the time, making women’s fight for equal pay harder. The good news is...
MOMINUL ISLAM 2020-12-08 15:10:28
It’s about a decade since green lending began in Bangladesh aligning the country with the global progression of climate financing. By the end of the 2000s, large-scale local industries were fami...
Martin Sandbu 2020-12-07 21:02:52
Over the past four decades almost all advanced economies have become more polarized, with increasingly unequal income distributions. Developing economies lifted billions of people out of poverty, bu...
NAVEED ASHFAQUE 2020-12-07 15:13:22
Scoring in a top-flight game is deemed hard, continuing it is deemed harder, and scoring winners week in, week out is deemed the hardest. And players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi do the har...
M A Taslim 2020-12-06 20:43:48
Remittances are a large source of foreign exchange receipts of the country. Since all remittances in foreign exchange have to be surrendered to Bangladesh Bank in exchange for taka, and the foreign ex...
Carlos Lopes 2020-12-06 20:19:20
This was supposed to be the year Europe and Africa redefined their relationship. In March, the European Commission unveiled its vision for a "comprehensive strategy with Africa," intended to kick-star...
AHNAF AHMED 2020-12-06 11:12:32
Cristiano Ronaldo, the man from Madeira, has established himself as one of the finest footballers to ever grace the game. To avid football fans, Ronaldo’s heroics in big games and clutch moments...
Allan Dizioli, Michal Andrle, and John Bluedorn 2020-12-05 21:35:29
Across the world, poor neighbourhoods have experienced more Covid-19 infections and deaths than wealthier ones. The pandemic and the efforts to control it have disproportionately hurt the poor, both w...
Jeffrey D Sachs 2020-12-04 20:27:49
Sixty years ago next May, President John F. Kennedy put the United States on a mission to the future. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out,...
Rahnuma Binte Rashed 2020-12-04 16:06:37
A 50-year-old Hasna Begum passes her days through babysitting grandchildren. This woman from Baipail area of Savar – who singlehandedly managed all sorts of household works for a family consisti...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-12-03 21:21:34
Many a city finds the banks of wide rivers beside them suitable for building recreation sites. Quite aptly, these spots could be grouped among hill resorts, small islands and dense forests. The corona...
ARIYANA A KHAN 2020-12-03 15:23:43
It is seven months since educational institutions around the country were shut down as part of efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19. The shift to online classes from engaging, interactive in-pers...
JINNATUL RAIHAN MUMU 2020-12-03 13:25:44
The sudden demise of 27-year-old Indian actress Mishti Mukherjee due to kidney failure related to “keto diet” has recently cast doubt on the boons of the trendy diet. While scrolling on so...
Harold James 2020-12-02 20:32:17
Covid-19 is dramatically widening a global divide that was evident long before the current crisis. Only some countries have been able to cover the costs of the pandemic and lockdowns with large fiscal...
Shakhawat Hossain 2020-12-02 20:30:33
There prevails a dilemma between exporters and importers. Exporters want cash payment, while importers want to make delayed payments. There are, inter alia, two markets -- sellers' market and buyers'...
AHMED TANVIR 2020-12-02 15:50:58
Akbar Ali, the latest sensation of Bangladesh cricket who led the under-19 team to the world cup title, was a mere eight-and-a-half-year-old boy in May 2010. Looking back further by a little more than...
JINAT JAHAN KHAN 2020-12-02 12:37:05
In order to understand global poverty better and how people's radical choices worsen the issue, ‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of The Way To Fight Global Poverty’ by Nobel laureates...
George Soros 2020-12-01 21:38:58
I have written a lot in the past about the desirability of the European Union issuing perpetual bonds. But today I am proposing that individual member states should do so. Right now, it would be impo...
Davide Malacrino 2020-12-01 20:47:25
Wealth begets wealth. This simple concept of privilege has added to growing discontent with inequality that has escalated under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. A paper co-authored this year by e...
FAHIM AHMED CHOWDHURY 2020-12-01 11:31:23
As mobile phones have become part and parcel of our everyday life, living without them or with damaged ones is no more an option. And so since the advent of smartphones, the industry has been growing...
TIASHA IDRAK 2020-11-30 15:06:25
"Have we ever been in love or it is just a habit?" is a question posed by Biswanath Majumdar (Soumitra Chatterjee) to his wife Aarati (Swatilekha Sengupta) in popular Indian Bangla film Belaseshe. The...
KHANDAKAR IFFAH 2020-11-30 10:48:38
Many meritorious students of Bangladesh miss out on opportunity to fulfill their dreams of pursuing higher studies for building a better future due to financial insolvency of their families and lack o...
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