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M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-09-28 12:00:00
Air pollution has lately become a major global environmental risk to our health and food security. It is also a big threat to the children's health and wellbeing. Almost 300 million children around th...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-09-28 09:14:51
Bangladesh has been known for ages for its kitchen markets --- especially those in the villages. These normally improvised trading centres have continued to expand with the passage of time and kept in...
Jeffrey D. Sachs in New York 2017-09-28 07:03:38
Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea formed "an axis of evil," Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United Nations, denounced Iran and North Korea in simi...
M. Rokonuzzaman 2017-09-27 12:00:00
Elderly care has been a growing issue across the world. Due to the lack of interest of having children, promotional activities in favour of taking few children, and even regulation like one-child poli...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-09-27 07:08:01
Disciplining the harmful subsidies on fishing will be an important deliverable agenda in the 11th ministerial conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Member countries of the organisat...
Muhammad Zamir 2017-09-26 12:00:00
It is true that Angela Merkel has won a fourth term as German Chancellor, but the election results indicate that she might have to make huge compromises. Her party's lead in parliament has been cut an...
Syed Jamaluddin 2017-09-26 08:25:45
Cold storage operators are of the opinion that between 1.5 and 2.0 million tons of potato will remain unsold by the end of the year because of sluggish demand. Farmers and traders have preserved 5.3 m...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2017-09-25 12:00:00
There are so many institutions and authorities, at home and abroad, these days engaging with policy making as a public discourse that it may appear as superfluous, even presumptuous to offer any intro...
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam 2017-09-25 08:47:48
The macro-economic condition of a nation is an index of its economic health. Before stepping into the topic of Bangladesh, let us have a look at the economic condition of the world, including develope...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-09-25 08:41:02
Because conflict is so perpetual, peace-making has become its hand-maiden industry. Even when peace looks most promising, it begins to dim even before it glows. No group confronts this challenge more...
Syed Muhtasim Fuad and Showvonick Datta 2017-09-24 12:00:00
"A disproportionate number of the great business fortunes built up during the inflationary years arose from ownership of operations that combined intangibles of lasting value with relatively minor req...
M. A. Muid Khan 2017-09-24 08:47:07
"…Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-09-23 09:05:20
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's two-day (September 13-14) visit to India was billed, among others, as an effort to further cement their strategic alliance. The visit took place in the wake of a m...
Mordecai Kurz 2017-09-23 08:57:20
For more than 30 years in advanced economies, particularly the United States, wealth and income inequality have increased, real (inflation-adjusted) wages have risen slowly, and retirees have faced de...
Mokerrom Hossain 2017-09-22 08:54:11
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US soil, there began a new kind of war across the world to haunt and kill terrorists. Afghanistan was attacked under the UN resolution but before it accomplishe...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-09-21 09:23:06
Except the serious readers of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938), most of his admirers are possibly oblivious to a vital fact related to his literary achievements. The year 2017 marks the centenar...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-09-21 09:13:17
It was a bold move that might, in retrospect, constitute a defining moment in Bangladesh's foreign policy-making. Sheikh Hasina's emotional visit to a Rohingya refugee camp carried many messages: Bang...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-09-18 09:23:51
BBC recently reported that 'India is resisting the push towards driverless cars in order to protect jobs.' Instead of preparing to welcome driverless cars, India has been setting up additional 100 tra...
Akhter Zamil 2017-09-17 09:33:00
To recall, the National Budget for the fiscal year 2017-2018 got dramatically passed in Parliament with the decision of stay for introducing the VAT Act 2012. VAT Act 2012, which was supposed to be in...
Quazi Faruque Ahmed 2017-09-16 12:00:00
Today is September 17, the `Education Day'. This year the day is being observed with the theme: 'In support of humanity, human rights & human resource development'. The day reminds us of the killi...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-09-14 12:00:00
Calling the recent flare-up of the simmering Rohingya refugee crisis a national debacle for Bangladesh is gross understatement. Keeping all its dreadful implications for the country in view, it had be...
S M Didarul Hasan 2017-09-12 12:00:00
All languages are sweet to their patrons, but none can be sweeter than one's own mother tongue. The language children learn since birth is derived from their surroundings, especially from the parents,...
Jacek Rostowski 2017-09-12 08:29:38
Populists such as US President Donald Trump and de facto Polish leader Jarosław Kaczyński, and authoritarians such as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, do no...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-09-11 08:31:33
Centre-left party pressure has become a transatlantic malaise, and not necessarily because the centre-right parties possess the magical 21st Century political formulas: they do not, but their status-q...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2017-09-10 10:29:43
President Trump, after much oscillation, decided on August 21 to send more troops in Afghanistan. In a speech before military personnel he said, "My original instinct was to pull out - and historicall...
Shamul Alam 2017-09-10 10:18:25
The core theme of the 7th Five Year Plan (FYP 2016- 20) is 'accelerating Growth, empowering citizens' with strong emphasis on creating more jobs in the economy and accelerating gross domestic product...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2017-09-09 08:20:50
National Professor Dr Muhammed Ibrahim, a great and successful physician, a gifted teacher, a talented organiser and a great reformer was born on December 31, 1911 and died on September 06...
Maswood Alam Khan 2017-09-09 07:45:08
An unprecedented ethnic-cleansing campaign, almost akin to a pogrom, has been unleashed against Rohingya people in Myanmar. According to corroborated reports published in newspapers all over the world...
Md Monirul Islam 2017-09-08 12:00:00
On July 31, 2017, ministers, senior government officials, businesses, representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development partners gathered at the Fourth Consultation of the UN Hi...
Shishir Reza 2017-09-07 06:37:08
Noted economist Professor Abul Barkat has brought out a book on 'economic thoughts'. The book is titled 'Poverty of Philosophy in Economics' (2017). It is a less discussed topic, and the book provides...
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