Tag: Readers’ corner

“Montreer pola” is a phrase I heard being used to rebuke somebody when I was in a vegetable market. It is now very known to most of us. Once devoted, learned, patriotic and honorable persons from the society did politics…

Every year ‘Saint Valentine’s Day’ is observed on February 14 by exchanging messages of affection love and devotion around the world. A lot of stories are in circulation centering the Valentine’s Day origin. To me, the episode between St. Valentinus…

Undoubtedly, no one is in favour hartal or against fair election. Everyone is in favour of fair election except a mad. Now, the government and the opposition would like to win grounds by ignoring people’s loss and sufferings including children’s…

In olden days the positions of teacher and politician used to be occupied by devoted, honest, learned persons form the society. In most of cases teachers also led the society. Actually, these are the key positions in our society to…

Bangladesh is one of the countries in the world where Hindus, Muslims and people of different opinion groups belonging different political parties used to live very peacefully. But now, the situation has changed dramatically and fear grips all of us.…

I am used to writing my opinion in the dailies. But for the last couple of weeks I am writing nothing and even I am not scanning the news in the dailies. I know this is unusual but this is…

Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have discovered an unusual method for producing antibiotics from bacteria that live in dirt. According to the researchers’ report published in the journal Nature said the new powerful antibiotic-the Teixobactin as they named is…

Janicki Bioenergy with the funding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently built a magical machine – the Omniprocessor which is capable of transforming sewage into potable water. The machine not only produces clean drinking water but electricity as…

Self-assessment is an important skill to learn by the students so that they can themselves assess their academic work and performance. A number of researches have been done on students’ self-assessment skill and it has been found that high-achieving students…

Once a barber was telling the truth recollecting from his memory while he was cutting hair of my son. My son was little and I used to go to the barber’s shop when his hair was cut. He said that…

We are hearing neither the sonar bangla of Bangabandhu nor the digital Bangladesh of the Prime Minister by any of the ministers of the sitting government for sometime now. Rather we are hearing murders, abductions, enforced disappearances, rapes, crimes, some…

It seems BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fokhrul Islam Alamgir has not gone through the history of India – as per a comment made by the veteran leader of AL and commerce minister of the sitting government. In 1996 their…

It is reported that once Bangabandhu had said about the some people – All people get mines of gold but I find all thieves. This reported exclamation came when relief blankets were distributed among the people soon after liberation and…

We thank the journalists, who are continuously feeding us with the updates by putting their life in danger and sometimes even sacrificing their lives. Sagor and Runi can be cited here with many others. We are passing the most critical…

A news item titled “All are silent but are in panic” has drawn my attention. Seven persons were abducted in open daylight from the link road of Dhaka-Narayangonj which is eight kilometres wide and offices of many important government officials…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to increase the practice of science among the new generation of citizens. She addressed a gold medal award ceremony of Bangladesh Bignan Academy at the Osmani Smriti Milanayatan on last Sunday. From history…

Through the columns of your esteemed newspaper we would like to bring to the notice of that entire world that a leader is the nation builder of a nation. They rule, guide, or inspire others. So, we would like to…

We find digital banners, very costly, here and there describing many development activities done by the government. The advertisements bear the pictures of government leaders. Banners, describing development works of the incumbent government, can be found even in each government…