Mostafa Kamal Majumder When I was offered to be the editor of The New Nation, Dhaka on 4 May 2005, I had already worked there as Executive Editor for nearly two years. I thought it was time for me to…
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কেবিন বুকড থাকার পরও আপনি হাসপাতালে না গিয়ে বাসায় আছেন কেন?
আমি তো ডাক্তার। করোনা রোগ নিয়েও কাজ করছি। আমি জানি, করোনা রোগীর কোন সময় হাসপাতালে যেতে হবে আর কোন সময় বাসায় থাকতে হবে। করোনা শনাক্ত হওয়ার সঙ্গে সঙ্গে হাসপাতালে চলে যেতে হবে— এটি একেবারেই ঠিক নয়। আমি যদি হাসপাতালে গিয়ে…
Digital agri: Zimbabwe farmers gain but mobile money costly
By Tonderayi Mukeredzi HARARE, May 27 2020 (IPS) – Shurugwi communal farmer, Elizabeth Siyapi (57) can no longer be scammed by unscrupulous middlemen to sell her crops cheaply. Nowadays, before she takes her produce to the market she scours her…
SDG setback ‘tremendous’ as Covid-19 accelerates slide
By Gareth Willmer and Fiona Broom May 26 2020 (IPS) – Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United Nations Secretary-General warns in a new report, as the COVID-19…
UN@75 and the future we want
By Dr Julia Stamm BERLIN, May 27 2020 (IPS) – Crises make us think smaller. When everything is uncertain, we turn inward: to our families, our communities, the immediate needs around us. We focus on the essential and the immediate;…
Wearing Mask Must Be Brought Under Compulsion In Bangladesh
Dr. Md. Jafar Ullah At the present time, Covid-19 is a horror throughout the world. Till today, it took over 3.5 lakh human lives along with 522 in Bangladesh as on 27th May 2020. This pandemic disease is still on…
Politics, profits undermine public interest in vaccine race
Sydney/Kuala Lumpur, 26 May (IPS/Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram) — With well over five million Covid-19 infections worldwide, and deaths exceeding 340,000, the race for an effective vaccine has accelerated since the SARS-Cov-2 virus was first identified as the…
Three killed in Chapainawabganj lightning strikes
Chapainawabganj, May 27 – Three people were killed in separate lightning strikes in Ghorapakhia union of Shibganj Upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday night.
Nor’wester lashes Dhaka, Mymensingh
Dhaka, May 27 – A nor’ wester accompanied by rain and gusty wind swept over the capital early Wednesday.
No woman should ever die giving life
By Sheikha Hend Al Qassimi and Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, May 26 2020 (IPS) – Consider this. 24 women, children and babies were murdered at a hospital in Kabul, the Afghan capital. Even by standards of a country as accustomed…
Customised, blended post-Covid-19 learning urgently needed
May 25 2020 (IPS) – Many well-meaning education benefactors and commentators in South Africa have expressed that in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic online self-guided learning could solve some of the current teaching problems and address the educational backlog.…
Innovation is an imperative for sustainable food systems
By Zoltán Kálmán ROME, May 26 2020 (IPS) – Hunger and food insecurity continue to rise. The official 2019 statistics refer to 821 million people suffering from hunger all over the world. According to the recently launched Global Report on…
Ensuring biodiversity now will prevent pandemics later
By Samira Sadeque UNITED NATIONS, May 26 2020 (IPS) – A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international and local levels and by ensuring biological diversity preservation around the world, experts recently said.
Cabinet sec, three services chiefs, IGP meet President
Dhaka, May 26 – Cabinet secretary, chiefs of three services and IGP on Tuesday separately paid a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in the evening.
Reveal performance results of Gonoshasthaya’s kits: JOF
Dhaka, May 26 – Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Tuesday demanded the quick revelation of the results of the performance study of coronavirus’ Rapid Dot Blot kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.
Imagery shows 200 buildings in Rakhine burned on May 16: HRW
Independent Inquiry Needed in Embattled Rakhine State Yangon – Satellite imagery shows that about 200 homes and other buildings were destroyed by fire on May 16, 2020, in Myanmar’s embattled Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. An impartial investigation…
দেশের প্রথম কম্পিউটার ও ইন্টারনেট সমৃদ্ধ জাতীয় প্রেস ক্লাব লাইব্রেরী
মোস্তফা কামাল মজুমদার নতুন সদস্যরা জেনে আনন্দিত হবেন, আমাদের সবার প্রিয় জাতীয় প্রেস ক্লাবে ইমেইল ইন্টারনেট সংযোগ স্থাপিত হয় জাতীয়ভাবে ইন্টারনেট ব্যবস্থা চালু হবার দুই বছর আগে ১৯৯৪ সালে। তার আগের বছর সেখানে কম্পিউটার সংযোজিত করে লাইব্রেরীকে সমৃদ্ধ করা হয়।…
Khaleda Zia enjoys Eid at home with family
Dhaka, May 26 – After four consecutive Eids in jail, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now out on parole, on Monday celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with her family members at her Gulshan residence.
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury tests coronavirus positive
Dhaka, May 26 – Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury on Monday said he was diagnosed with coronavirus.
Michigan dam failures: New warnings for dam safety
May 25, 2020 SANDRP On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 evening following two days of heavy (4-7 inches) rains, Edinville Dam breached at 1740 and downstream Sanford dam overflowed at 1900 hours, leading to highest ever water level in downstream towns,…
Are the SDGs in reverse gear?
By Saida Ali NAIROBI, Kenya, May 25 2020 (IPS) – When I was a little girl, my mother told us the story of a woman who escaped from a monster by cooking stones: when the monster fell asleep waiting for…
জাতীয় কবি কাজী নজরুল ইসলামের জন্ম জয়ন্তীতে শ্রদ্ধাঞ্জলী
– ইঞ্জিনিয়ার একেএম রেজাউল করিম আমাদের প্রাণের কবি, বিদ্রোহী কবি, জাতীয় কবি কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম। অগ্রণী বাঙালি কবি, বিংশ শতাব্দীর অন্যতম জনপ্রিয় বাঙালি কবি, সঙ্গীতজ্ঞ, সংগীতস্রষ্টা, দার্শনিক, যিনি বাংলা কাব্যে অগ্রগামী ভূমিকার সঙ্গে সঙ্গে প্রগতিশীল প্রণোদনার জন্য সর্বাধিক পরিচিত I…
PM greets freedom fighters on Eid Day
Dhaka, May 25 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday greeted all freedom fighters of the country on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Eid sans family reunions, guests
Dhaka, May 24 – Eid is an occasion of boundless joy and happiness. It is also one of sadness for those loving parents who have to celebrate Eid without their sons and daughters around them.
Massive 1975 rise in new virus cases, deaths 24 Monday in BD
Dhaka, May 25 – Bangladesh recorded its highest number of 1,975 coronavirus cases on Monday and 21 deaths within 24 hours. The number of confirmed cases now stands at 35,585.
Taiwan offers help to Hong Kong amid anti-China protests
Taiwan’s president Tsai ing-wen promised to provide the people of Hong Kong with the “necessary assistance” as tension in the city rises over China’s new national security law.
‘Hitler’s alligator’ that survived battle dies in Moscow
An alligator who survived the bombing of Berlin in 1943 and is rumoured to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in a Moscow zoo aged 84. “Animals are not involved in wars and politics,” the zoo said.
China says US at brink of starting new cold war with Beijing
By VOA News China says some “political forces” in the United States have taken bilateral relations hostage and are pushing the world’s two biggest economies towards “a new Cold War.”
What’s in a name?
Sudhirendar Sharma Names may not always define the nature of a thing but certainly represent historical lineage when referred to a place.
Eid-ul-Fitr in the midst of coronavirus pandemic
Mostafa Kamal Majumder After a month of fasting and self-restraint Muslims in Bangladesh, like those in the rest of the world, are celebrating the holy Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday according to the sighting of the moon. Traditionally the biggest religious festival…