Emotional Intelligence is an intellectual skill with which a person can understand his own emotions and manage them accordingly and at the same time evaluate the emotions of others in the society and perform all the tasks of life on the basis of mutual relationships. Extensive practice of Emotional Intelligence
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Empowering change & resilience: Social protection in the age of megatrends
Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: climate change, demographic shifts and digitalization. Tens of millions of people have been pushed into extreme poverty since COVID-19, reversing
Coastal farmers in Bangladesh give up shrimp farming for agriculture
Sheikh Sirajul Islam, a smallholder farmer in Bangladesh’s southwestern Satkhira district, sowed the wet-season aman rice in his four acres of land this August. He is hopeful for a good yield, he says. Sirajul, from Satkhira’s Shyamnagar upazila, resumed rice cultivation two years ago, after having stopped it for two decades.
Ousted PM Hasina’s oligarchs jeopardized Bangladesh economy
After weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations in the South Asian nation, in the afternoon of August 5th, televisions in Bangladesh broadcast images of a helicopter rising from the residence of Sheikh Hasina, the country’s prime minister until minutes before. The chopper was carrying her and her sister “to safety”. Shortly
A year of conflict in Middle East ushers in a new era of regional displacement
A year of conflict has ushered in a new era of mass displacement in the Middle East. Since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent sustained Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel has expanded its operations on multiple fronts to include the West Bank, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. With
Interim govt takes strong steps to eliminate single-use plastic
The newly formed government in Bangladesh is about to implement the existing law regarding plastic usage by strictly banning — initially — single-use plastic and, gradually, all possible plastic uses. Civil society members formed the current non-political government on Aug. 8, 2024, after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet
Human toll on Lebanon under threat of Israeli invasion
On September 23, Israel began launching a barrage of airstrikes on Lebanon, targeting the Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah. According to statements from the Israeli Defense Force (IDP), approximately 3,600 sites have been struck, making this the deadliest aerial campaign on Lebanon in the last 20 years. Reports from the Lebanese government
The UN Cybercrime Convention: A new repressive tool in disguise?
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime hailed the recently agreed Cybercrime Convention as a ‘landmark step’ in cooperating to tackle online dangers. But human rights organisations aren’t so sure. Ominously, the resolution that started the process, passed by the UN General Assembly in December 2019, was sponsored by authoritarian Russia
Nasrallah: Stronger dead than alive
There is no question that Hassan Nasrallah was a powerful orator. He could hold millions of followers in rapt attention—even adoration—through his deep voice, logic, passion, and wit. Now that he is gone, Lebanon’s powerful Shi’a organization Hezbollah is greatly weakened—or so the pundits say. While that’s true in the short-term
To put a stop to siphoning off money, start with data
The commonly used Bangla phrase for siphoning off money out of the country – “taka pachar” – is rather misleading. Because taka, the Bangladeshi currency, is never taken out of Bangladesh. It’s not useful anywhere else. What goes out is its equivalence in foreign currencies, especially, US dollars. The technical