Sudhirendar Sharma This book is for those who not only think that climate change is an urgent problem, but also agree that getting the world off fossil fuels is difficult. If you support either of these two positions, this book…
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Journalism in N. Korea in S. Korean eyes
Media experts on N.Korea worry about distorted, low-quality information due to political influence, media commercialization Journalists and media experts gathered in Seoul on Monday to discuss South Korean media’s reporting tendencies on inter-Korean relations, mainly focusing on reports from the…
The Asia Foundation donates 4040 books in Panchagarh
Dhaka – The Asia Foundation Bangladesh organized a book donation event on Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at Panchagarh Government Auditorium, Panchagarh, to donate approximately 4040 books worth 22 lakh taka to 20 local schools, including 8 girls’ schools to promote…
The end of rat race
Sudhurendar Sharma Whether or not you smell them, their presence remains ubiquitous.Think and you will find them, not one but many – here, there and everywhere. Having followed humans to just about every corner of the globe, these creatures have…
‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University
By Sean Coughlan What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence.…
Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University
By Sean Coughlan What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence.…
Caught in the crossfire
Sudhirendar Sharma The stories of human sufferings in an unjust world are often subsumed in dominant political-economy discourses that focus on resource extraction as a means of so-called human development. Charlie Hebdo killings may have moved the world but continuing…
Significance of silent reading
Masum Billah Reading education materials is one of the important early aspects in the process of learning and being educated. We do reading usually in two ways such as oral or loud reading and silent reading. Knowing the difference between…
DRU resents GP’s inability to offer best reporter award
Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), the only organisation of reporters working in different print, electronic and online media, and news agency based in Dhaka, yesterday alleged that Grameen Phone authority has cheated with DRU in its inability to provide its prestigious…
Journalist Habibur Rahman Milan pases away
Senior jounanlist Habibur Rahman Milan, chairman of the Press Institute of Bangladesh is no more. Advisory editor of the Itefaq and a senior member of the National Press Club, and a recipients of the Ekushey Padak, Habibur Rahman Milan breathed…
Greater awareness on water urged as fellowships distributed
The Water Journalism Fellowship awards and certificates for 2014 offered by the Touching Souls International, USA, were distributed at a simple ceremony at the National Press Club on Thursday. The Fellowship on Water Journalism is being offered by Touching Souls…
Manik Mia Foundation office launched
A foundation named after renowned journalist Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia was launched at a simple ceremony at the Ittefaq Bhaban in the presence of eminent politicians, writers, university teachers, editors of newspapers and journalists. Organisers said its objective should be…
Jalebi uncoiled: Better to be dumb than alert
Sudhirendar Sharma Would you believe that being ‘smart’ isn’t the in-thing it used to be in not too distant past! I am not the only one who seems to have sensed it. Wear your thinking cap or glasses or shirt…
The Yoga of our times
Sudhirendar Sharma Yoga, as it is beamed through television channels today, is not what was written by Patanjali in the first centuries of the Common Era. Yoga, as it is beamed through television channels today, is not what was written…
Rumi established unity of all people thru love: Iranian envoy
The Ambassador of Iran in Bangladesh Abbas Vaezi has said that poet and philosopher of the 13th century Jalaluddin Rumi wanted to unite all people through love. Addressing a seminar on Jalaluddin Rumi organised by the Nawab Salimullah Academy at…
City’s double life
Sudhirendar Sharma To strike a balance between religious obligations and human desires, a majority of Tehranis are forced to lie to ensure survival Life in a city is about survival, and Tehran is no different. Survival is as much an…
International Bengali festival in New York 22 May
New York Correspondent Rising against all kinds of cheap power and anti-cultural activities, mukthodhara is going to celebrate Bengali festival and three days long book fair on 22 may in New York. The book fair of New york is an…
Günter Grass obituary: theguardian
Jonathan Steele Günter Grass, who has died aged 87, was Germany’s best-known postwar novelist, a man of titanic energy and zest who, besides his fiction-writing, enjoyed the cut and thrust of political debate and relaxed by drawing, painting and making…
Diffusion of agricultural innovation
Professor M Zahidul Haque In developing countries whose mainstay is agriculture, technology generation and diffusion is a crucial factor to eradicate hunger and poverty through attainment of food security and increase of farm income. Small farming, particularly in countries where…
Will everyone get a Ferrari one day?
Even if everyone were to get a Ferrari, it will only be the Fiat of its generation. It is tough to imagine ‘de-growth’ as an idea of our times. One would argue that resisting growth is to risk economic and…
Conceptual understanding of the Chinese dream
Dr. Sinha M. A. Sayeed ‘Dreams inspire and propel us. Philosophers, politicians, writers and musicians have been saying so for centuries. “Hope is a waking dream,” Aristotle once wrote. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only…
Asia Foundation Bd distributes 4000 books to 31 schools
Dhaka – Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia programme in Bangladesh organised a book donation event in honor of Independence Day and International Women’s Day by distributing 4000 books across a wide variety of disciplines, such as English, Business, Management, and…
Prescribed living invites doctors’ prescription
Sudhirendar Sharma Mass production, mass consumption and resultant mass monotony has resulted in mass depression. Realizing that the French people would judge him for how happy and satisfied they felt with life during his presidency, Nicholas Sarkozy had hired some…
The king who never forgot he was a king
Sudhirendar Sharma Had he been born a century later, he would undoubtedly have found his career in the film world. For different reasons, the lives of the Indian Kings and Princes have been intriguing both for the historians as well…
Review of Confessions of a Terrorist – A Novel
Anita McKone If you have ever asked ‘Why?… How could they do this?’ in response to the latest report of terrorism, then Confessions of a Terrorist http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Terrorist-Novel-Richard-Jackson/dp/1783600020 is the novel for you. But only if you genuinely want to find…
First German edition of ‘Mein Kampf’ since 1945 stirs old feelings
By Samuel Oakford Ever since Adolf Hitler’s suicide in 1945, his manifesto Mein Kampf has gone unprinted in Germany at the behest of the federal state of Bavaria, which holds the copyright — but this will soon change. With the…
“Rosatom” unveils popular booklet on nuclear energy at Ekushey Book Fair
Dhaka – A popular science illustrated booklet with basic facts about atomic energy in Bangla was unveiled by Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom at Omor Ekushey Book Fair at Bangla Academy. The presentation of the booklet was supported by the…
A book on agricultural journalism: “Krishi Sangbadikota Shikhhon”
–M Zahidul Haque Author: Moniruzzaman Kabir Publisher: Howladar Prakashani, Dhaka. First Print: 2015 Pages: 110 Available at: Stall no. 82, Omor ekushey book fair, Howleder Prokashani. Agricultural Journalism is comparatively a new independent discipline but it emerged as a popular…
Mukut’s book cover unveiled at Ekushey Book Fair
The cover of Sayed Mahmud Hasan Mukut’s second book of poetries ‘Mon Chuyeche Nil Shari Nil Tip” was unveiled at the Ekushey Book Fair of Bangla Academy on Friday. Former minister Mizanur Rahman Shelley, eminent novelist and writer Ali Iman,…
Magna Carta edition found in Sandwich archive scrapbook
An early edition of Magna Carta has been found in a Victorian scrapbook during a search of a council’s archives The discovery has come months ahead of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta in Runnymede in 1215.…