By Nava Thakuria As Burma (Myanmar) is presently changing its face from a military ruled country to a quasi-democracy and starts attracting heavy investments from various western agencies in its real-estate sector. Incidentally the trend has brought worries to many…
Anita McKone Have you ever been provoked by someone into fear, anger or pain, and then blamed, punished or humiliated for feeling and expressing these feelings? This is a form of psychological torture which has very serious consequences. Here are…
-By Raquib Siddiqi Bangladesh tourism has badly suffered in 2013 due to prolonged political turmoil. But global scene was just the opposite. In the first eight months of the year 2013, international tourist arrivals grew by 5 per cent to…
-SHAHID ALAM As the ritualistic celebration of Ekushey February returned this year, I have been struck by the changes that have subtly crept in the Bengali language down the years since Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign independent nation-state. Of course,…
Dr. Atiur Rahman Better collaboration and partnerships among leading businesses, investors and key public institutions can lead to new models of inclusive, green and sustainable growth. A rapid, large‐scale green transition is required for maintaining a global economic growth that…
-By Raquib Siddiqi Tourism in Bangladesh is having a rudderless existence. The government has failed to build workable tourism infrastructure—even failed to provide proper guidance to the private sector which in recent years has come up in a big way…
Robert J. Burrowes If we want to take appropriate action to fix something that is not working properly, then it is necessary to understand, precisely, the nature of the problem. Obviously, if our diagnosis is inaccurate, then the solution applied…
Masum Billah The SSC and equivalent examinations have begun from February 9 with the participation of a record number of examinees. It sounds good but the news of dropout has baffled us. One lakh sixty six thousand eight hundred forty…
-By Raquib Siddiqi The year 2013, is going to be marked as the worst year for the nascent tourism industry of Bangladesh. According to tourism industry insiders, the nearly 4,000 crore taka investment in the sector is under serious threat. …
The second edition of Dhaka Art Summit has been held between February 7 and 9 with focus on the South Asian region and highlighted the vibrant contemporary art scene. It has featured five exhibitions curated by local and international curators,…
Dr Sudhirendar sharma Free water allocation resolves temporal scarcity but at the cost of inducing lasting crises. Such populist measures stretch existing supply alongside stressing perennial water sources, Since water bills are measured in currency and not in volume of…
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma History has never been as readable – intriguing, engrossing and gripping! By weaving fact and fiction together, Alex Rutherford has brought the historical characters of the bygone era to life in his Empire of the Moghul series.…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Malaysian labour activist Charles Hector Fernandez recently told their government that detention of 2400 undocumented migrants, mostly Bangladeshis, at 15 immigration depots must be followed up by a thorough investigation on the journey from their country of…
Masum Billah Teaching itself is a courageous profession in many respects. The people belonging to other professions can do corruption, earn colossal amount of money by fair means or foul, can do indecent activities which will not upset people around…
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) of the government the other day came up with an explanation that there is no reason to ‘lend ear to a propaganda’ that bt bringal produced in Bangladesh in a limited way would be exported…
Robert J. Burrowes Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a ‘mental health’ issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider. My first suggestion…
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma So, it would seem! Else, all dreams for better arrangement of the world would not have been attacked, poisoned, discredited and ridiculed. From Cuba to Rwanda and from Congo to Iraq, countries refusing to Western dictate have…
We witnessed the 10th Parliamentary Election which has earned the reputation of the most controversial and questionable one in the history of Bangladesh with the lowest percentage of voter turnout. The EC was hesitating to declare the poor percentage of…
Robert J. Burrowes Fundamentalism is a widespread problem. It often manifests in a religious context – making it highly visible – but there are plenty of secular fundamentalists too. If we are to understand fundamentalism we should not view it…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder With the government saying it has got the people’s mandate to run the country for another term, calling the activists opposing the January-5 election as miscreants and anti-liberation forces to be punished and eliminated; and the opposition…
Masum Billah Bangladesh has occupied a unique position in the globe in many respects both in positive and negative senses. The distribution of new textbooks at the beginning of every academic year free of cost among the learners of primary…
-Rakibul Hasan Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy. Every five-years it holds general election. The Bangladesh Election Commission is a constitutional body that conducts election as per powers vested under Article 118 of the Constitution. Like in many other developing democracies,…
By Emily Sohn Mayan pyramid in Chichen-Itza, Mexico. Space observations provide clues as to how ancient civilizations, like that of the Mayans and the Old Kingdom of Egypt, collapsed. Credit: Shutterstock. Mayan pyramid in Chichen-Itza , Mexico . Space observations…
Masum Billah The whole country has experienced a nightmare since November 26 just after the declaration of 10th parliamentary election. A series of blockades by the opposition alliance from November 26 and the response from the law enforcers and the…
Dr. Sudhurendar Sharma Throughout recorded history, humans have widened their choices by focusing on things that either don’t exist or exist only in imagination. Isn’t the opposite of everything more interesting? No wonder, paranormal persists, myths fascinate and pseudoscience captivates.…
Masum Billah White colour is the symbol of peace universally. To stop a war white fag is shown. We know the ‘red-shirt’ and ‘yellow shirt’ movement and demonstration of Thailand. But the rally or demonstration with ‘white flag’ is quite…
Robert J. Burrowes Critiques of the mainstream (allopathic) medical industry have long drawn attention to its death-dealing: See, for example, ‘Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health’ and ‘When Doctors Strike, Fewer People Die’. In fact, according to one heavily-researched report,…
By Dr Gideon Polya The world is farewelling world hero Nelson Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) who is universally admired (except in Apartheid Israel) for his courageous persistence for decades until the evil racism of Apartheid was…
Dr. Sudhurendar Sharma In 2011, a fifth of the global human population perished on account of infectious diseases. With the power of anti-microbial and anti-bacterial drugs literally coming to an end, some 9.5 million people in developing countries paid the…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The demise of South Africa’s fatherly figure Nelson Mandela (95) on Friday has cast a pall of gloom not merely in the African republic that he has built from the ruins of apartheid to a nation of…