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Understanding geopolitical perspective of terrorism

Understanding geopolitical perspective of terrorism

K.B. Ahmed 2017-11-17 12:00:00

One may trace the origin of modern-day terrorism in the Middle East in the 1926 Balfour Declaration. Whether we exercise the option to choose our beginning by a process of selection by evolution or we...

China lays out multilateral vision at APEC

China lays out multilateral vision at APEC

Yang Danzhi 2017-11-17 09:08:36

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting last week, making it his first international multilateral engagem...

Pablo Neruda: Turbulent career, unquiet death

Pablo Neruda: Turbulent career, unquiet death

Shihab Sarkar 2017-11-16 12:00:00

Ever since the death of the celebrated poet Pablo Neruda two weeks after a bloody coup in Chile in 1973, speculations have been rife about the real cause of his demise. The junta led by Augusto Pinoch...

Social media as tool for teaching-learning

Social media as tool for teaching-learning

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-11-16 09:59:19

Around the world digital technologies as well as social media have revolutionised education. They challenge the traditional approaches of classroom teaching-learning, and the way education is managed....

Hathurusingha resigns without a successor

Hathurusingha resigns without a successor

M Serajul Islam 2017-11-15 08:48:55

Chandika Haturusingha's resignation that came this week was news to the Bangladesh media. He had, in fact, submitted his resignation to the President of the Bangladesh Board in October that he had kep...

The 5.0 per cent Agenda campaign

The 5.0 per cent Agenda campaign

Ibrahim Assane Mayaki 2017-11-14 12:00:00

JOHANNESBURG - As the US Federal Reserve embarks on the "great unwinding" of the stimulus programme it began nearly a decade ago, emerging economies are growing anxious that a stronger dollar will adv...

The physicians need to honour Hippocratic Oath

The physicians need to honour Hippocratic Oath

Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2017-11-13 07:49:44

The physicians in Bangladesh usually invest only 48 seconds to a patient who seeks primary healthcare. Such a short consultation length is likely to adversely affect patient healthcare and physician w...

Trump's Asia tour highlights transactional approach to diplomacy

Trump's Asia tour highlights transactional approach to diplomacy

Muhammad Zamir 2017-11-12 12:00:00

President Donald Trump's 12-day Asian tour has been an example of transactional approach within the paradigm of international relations. We have seen a similar direction during his initial tour in tha...

Rural development calls for an integrated approach

Rural development calls for an integrated approach

B K Mukhopadhyay 2017-11-12 09:12:16

As rural innovation is increasingly viewed as a complex process that defies simple solutions, it has become more and more difficult to identify the types of investment and policy interventions needed...

The Trump-Duterte drug war tango

The Trump-Duterte drug war tango

Aryeh Neier 2017-11-11 12:00:00

When US President Donald Trump visits the Philippines on November 12-13, on the last stop of his marathon trip to Asia, he will pay respects to President Rodrigo Duterte. Since Duterte's inauguration...

Conducting a credible election - a litmus test for the EC

Conducting a credible election - a litmus test for the EC

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2017-11-10 12:00:00

The Election Commission (EC) has completed its dialogue with the political parties and representatives of the civil society and the media. The dialogue commenced on July 31 and continued until October...

Of youth-centric development planning

Of youth-centric development planning

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-11-09 09:38:09

Around the world, young people are large in number which is growing. They constitute one-quarter of the world's population, and one-third of the population in developing nations. Youths have the endle...

Erasing vestiges of the past - mindless cruelty to heritage

Erasing vestiges of the past - mindless cruelty to heritage

Shihab Sarkar 2017-11-09 09:26:34

The irrational speed at which the capital's century-old Khamarbari, meaning a farmhouse, housing an agri-research centre, was demolished in just one and half weeks has sparked incredulity of many. Ins...

Economics with a human face: Nudging & budging

Economics with a human face: Nudging & budging

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-11-09 08:44:04

Richard Thaler's 2017 Nobel Economics Prize was overdue. He has been gnawing away at overheated neo-liberal economic philosophy in the same way that Thomas Malthus's population thesis had done to clas...

Rich dividends expected of Chinese Belt & Road initiative

Rich dividends expected of Chinese Belt & Road initiative

M S Siddiqui 2017-11-08 08:48:54

The Chinese government's vision is to double 2010 national income by 2020 with the nation pushing towards transforming its economy from a largely export-driven one to services and domestic consumption...

Realpolitik importance of stabilising food inflation and 2019 election

Realpolitik importance of stabilising food inflation and 2019 election

Safwan Rob 2017-11-07 12:00:00

Enormous billboards around Dhaka and in parts of the country boast Bangladesh's achievements - such as economic growth, huge foreign currency reserve, rural-electrification, joining the nuclear energy...

The Catalan fiasco: Europe wary of centrifugal tendencies

The Catalan fiasco: Europe wary of centrifugal tendencies

Muhammad Zamir 2017-11-05 09:45:46

The last few weeks have witnessed an evolving political dynamics in Spain. The current dispute has been Spain's worst political crisis since democracy was restored there in the 1970s.  At first t...

An elegy for Prof M R Khan

An elegy for Prof M R Khan

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2017-11-04 10:03:46

The Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Shishu Sasthaya Foundation Bangladesh (SSFB) at Mirpur, Dhaka set up by National Professor Dr M.R. Khan, under the aegis of Shishu Sasthaya Foundation, is an ep...

2017-18 global economic outlook-- implications for Bangladesh

2017-18 global economic outlook-- implications for Bangladesh

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-11-04 09:35:27

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest World Economic Outlook report (October, 2017) has given a more optimistic forecast for global economic growth. This report was released in the conte...

Adult learning to promote sustainable development

Adult learning to promote sustainable development

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-11-02 09:36:26

"All people, irrespective of sex, age, race, ethnicity, and persons with disabilities, migrants, indigenous peoples, children and youth, especially those in vulnerable situations, should have access t...

Quest for happiness in an adverse world

Quest for happiness in an adverse world

Shihab Sarkar 2017-11-02 09:29:19

People in search of true happiness may find in a recently discovered quotation by Einstein a clue to attaining it. The state of happiness has been defined in myriad ways in different times. Apart from...

Access to technology vital for women entrepreneurship development

Access to technology vital for women entrepreneurship development

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2017-11-01 11:33:39

Sophisticated entrepreneurship and its sustainability depend on technology. As a source of instant help bridging communication gaps, it reduces time to gather information considered the number one raw...

US loses in the Mideast even as it wins against Islamic State

US loses in the Mideast even as it wins against Islamic State

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited the Middle East last weekend with two simple aims - to wrap Iraq into America's regional axis against Iran, and persuade Saudi Arabia to end its blockade of...

The not-so-dire future of work

The not-so-dire future of work

Zia Qureshi 2017-10-29 10:05:25

The future of work is a hot topic nowadays. It has inspired a seemingly endless train of analyses, commentaries, and conferences, and it featured prominently in last week's annual meetings of the Inte...

The Rohingya crisis deepens

The Rohingya crisis deepens

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-10-28 08:45:50

Despite the visit of Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) representative to Dhaka and her own announcement to figure out why Muslims (not Rohingyas or even her pre-crisis term Bengalis) were fleeing Rakhine have...

Sushma Swaraj's visit to Dhaka: Mixed signals

Sushma Swaraj's visit to Dhaka: Mixed signals

M. Serajul Islam 2017-10-27 09:17:07

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's 24-hour-long official visit was undertaken ostensibly for the meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Committee with her counterpart, the Ba...

The quest for sustainable development for all

The quest for sustainable development for all

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-10-26 12:00:00

At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the global community - the heads of Governments from193 countries - committed to achieve sustainable changes on a massive scale for millions of people across the worl...

How far is the sixth mass extinction?

How far is the sixth mass extinction?

Shihab Sarkar 2017-10-26 09:08:20

Thanks to the Brazilian government's reinstatement of its earlier order of a ban, the new batches of miners will miss the opportunity for now to search for minerals in the vast Amazon rainforest. With...

Writing an obituary on planning as a national policy? Not yet

Writing an obituary on planning as a national policy? Not yet

Hasnat Abdul Hye 2017-10-25 10:04:48

Almost every country follows a development policy that forms part of the general economic policy. Where the development policy is comprehensive embracing all sectors, the latter is subsumed under it,...

Liberalising gold market

Liberalising gold market

M S Siddiqui 2017-10-25 09:36:26

The gold policy of Bangladesh is in a very primitive stage. As per Chapter 6(4) of Regulation of Bangladesh Bank, there are no restrictions under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FER Act) on the i...