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Ritwika Patgiri 2021-07-15 21:28:00
Economic inequality is a reality of the world that we live in today. Many economic historians tend to agree that the root of most of this economic inequality is a path-dependent outcome of many histor...
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They started by referencing the Doomsday Clock (Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists), which has pegged humanity's risk of annihilation at an all-time high of only 100 second...
MORIUM KULSUM 2021-07-13 15:24:27
Tech giant Apple is the poster child for successful disruption strategy. The company heralded a golden age for the smartphone industry with the launch of its first iPhone in 2007. Subsequent iPhone ge...
Muhammad Zamir 2021-07-11 20:50:31
The emergence of the Communist Party in China (CPC) also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) one hundred years ago changed the geo-strategic paradigm of that country. Founded in 1921 in the c...
Akhtar Mahmood 2021-07-11 20:41:30
This year, as Bangladesh celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence, a plethora of writings have tried to explain its remarkable transformation from a country known for famines and natural di...
Fahmina Ahmed 2021-07-11 15:52:32
Spicing things up is a favourite job of Bangladeshi people in both of their daily lives and cuisine. People here seem to be unable to spend a single day without these two things, especially spice in...
Muhammad Mahmood 2021-07-10 20:38:29
On July 1, 2021, China celebrated the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The founding congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) took place on July 1, 1...
Mostafa Abid Khan 2021-07-10 19:57:50
Bangladesh is set to graduate from the LDC status in 2026. Recommendation made by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in February 2021 has already been endorsed by United Nations...
Shah Faiyaz Hussain 2021-07-10 00:00:00
What if I told you a chef of Bangladeshi origin has taken the food world by storm. I am talking about Sohla El-Waylly who is a celebrated chef, writer and internet personality. She was trained at the...
Galia Oz 2021-07-09 20:56:52
Sujoud is 12, and she tells the camera, matter-of-factly, about a man who approached her and her friends in a threatening manner as they walked to school in the adjacent village of A-Tuwani, in the We...
Asjadul Kibria 2021-07-08 20:57:06
The spirit behind standing by people during their sufferings and providing donation to them is mostly driven by religious teachings. Every religion has directed its followers to donate or give away th...
Kristalina Georgieva 2021-07-08 20:50:30
When G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Venice this week, they can take inspiration from the city's unbreakable spirit. As the world's first international financial center,...
Ranjit Kumar Chakraborty 2021-07-08 20:48:36
It's a feat of storytelling that can make people familiar with ideas and convictions. In the book Win: How Public Entrepreneurship Can Transform the Developing World, Mr. Fouzul Kabir Khan has courage...
Mushfiqur Rahman 2021-07-07 20:58:43
Bangladesh government's recent decision to cancel the contracts for 10 coal fired power plants in late June 2021 has invited interest in the country and abroad. On June 27, 2021, State Ministe...
M M Rahman 2021-07-07 20:57:17
It the last month, Sustainable Development Report, 2021 was published. Since the adoption of the agenda in 2015, every year an annual report is made to provide latest updates. This year the report pro...
Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Saida Khamidova 2021-07-07 20:55:36
Governments across the world adopted stimulus packages in 2020 to address the Covid-19 pandemic, with those in advanced economies outstripping those in the rest of the world. The resulting high budget...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2021-07-06 21:06:25
The first three decades of Dhaka University during the British era were quite eventful. These are encapsulated here in the following paragraphs based on recollections of various luminaries associated...
Anna Gorka 2021-07-05 21:57:52
Dating back to the early 90s, the advertising industry of Bangladesh was always filled with colourful jingles. You turn on a TV channel and easily come across the advertisement of different products...
Kristalina Georgieva, David Malpass, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 2021-07-05 21:52:52
As many countries are struggling with new variants and a third wave of Covid-19 infections, accelerating access to vaccines becomes even more critical to ending the pandemic everywhere and achieving...
Anshukant Taneja 2021-07-04 20:38:50
Microfinance was strongly tested at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Microfinance institutions, running a high-touch business and serving lower income clients severely impacted by the pandemic, wer...
Labanya Bhowmik 2021-07-03 18:06:52
This scribe tried Mundi with school friends, mostly from Marma ethnic group in Bandarban, in fact during the formative years of life. Those days, popularity of Mundi, was not known to people living ou...
TANJIM HASAN PATWARY 2021-07-03 15:49:23
“From my childhood, I have been seeing my father arranging mezban, a feast for the guests. It is our family tradition. I hope our future generation will not break with this,” said Arif Ahm...
IMTIAZ AHMED 2021-07-03 13:02:23
A hundred years ago, sleep paralysis, an abnormal sleep behaviour, had a supernatural meaning. It would be called by many names like demonic possession, black magic, witchcraft and dark spirits. Eve...
Natalya Stankevich, Erik Nora and Arnab Bandyopadhyay 2021-07-02 20:39:14
Rivers are the oldest means of transport in the massive Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, where a dense lattice of waterways once carried over 70 per cent of the goods and passengers within the region....
KANIZ FATEMA 2021-07-02 13:50:32
You must remember those days from high school when you used to hang up a daily routine on your reading desk. It was a beautifully handwritten customised routine earmarking a certain time for a certain...
M Rokonuzzaman 2021-07-01 21:53:07
Companies like Apple, HP, Microsoft, GE, Sony, or Daimler corporation came from the garage, university dormitories, or workshops. The seed of these companies had been great ideas-- startups. But the m...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2021-06-30 20:56:38
Today, July 1, 2021 is the birth centenary of Dhaka University - once known as 'Oxford of the East'. But its birth did not happen all of a sudden. It is quite apparent from its founding and evolutio...
SHAERI NAWAR 2021-06-30 12:56:05
Imagine a twin - Rahim and Karim. One day they visited a festival where Karim got lost and had ever since lived on the roadside. Rahim grew up in a stable normal family household while Karim grew up w...
Ahmad Ahsan 2021-06-29 20:29:17
With Tk. 6.03 lac crore ( or Tk 6.03 trillion) of proposed expenditures, fully one-third of which is deficit-financed, the finance minister's fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22) proposed budget is one of Ban...
Syed Badrul Ahsan 2021-06-28 22:33:59
Matt Hancock's resignation from the office of Britain's Health Secretary is once again a sign of the vitality of democracy. He was caught violating the very social distancing rules in a coronavirus...
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