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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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