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Lessons from Mamata’s win

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- Afsan Chowdhury - May 4, 2021May 4, 2021

Mamta Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress was expected to win but with a slim margin when the electoral campaigns began. By the time the vote day had arrived, Indian media was contemplating a hung assembly or even worse for Mamata, a role in the Opposition. The reasons were not just the BNP/Modi

Corona, China and India’s lost priorities

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- Afsan Chowdhury - May 3, 2021May 3, 2021

Suddenly India looks very vulnerable in the face of corona. The general feeling was that the virus had been tackled in India and it emerged as a “hero ‘to its people. While infection rates soared in the rest of the world, India was relatively safe. On top of that India

Act quickly to ensure adequate oxygen supply

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- Kamal Ahmed - May 1, 2021May 2, 2021

The second wave of the Covid has taken a deadlier shape than the first wave did last year. Now, the biggest talk of the country is oxygen crisis, in addition to medical equipment including ICU beds in hospitals. In response to a writ petition filed with the High Court a

Education, alongside health, is important too

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- Kamal Ahmed - April 28, 2021April 29, 2021

The world is facing endless problems because of the Covid-19. No one knows when the pandemic will completely disappear. Owing to the coronavirus, direct teaching in educational institutions has been stopped in the country for about 14 months. Research activities at higher education institutions have come to a halt. Online

Lessons to learn from India’s Covid

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 28, 2021April 29, 2021

India’s disaster in managing the Covid and the resultant human suffering is a brutal lesson in reality checking. India not only looks unprepared but downright incompetent. For a country that has always claimed to be the best run in South Asia, it’s scary to see how hard one may fall

Hefazat on the run?

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Although the Hefazat and the shushil community in Bangladesh and abroad were convinced about Islamist power, the government it appears wasn’t. Some saw in Hefazat an overwhelming monster that could swallow their vision of Bangladesh. To the government, it seems, it was another threat to manage. BNP had also bought the

Make lockdown count

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- Sohel Manzur - April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Shutting only govt offices, public transports won’t help The government has decided, once again, to extend the ongoing ‘strict’ lockdown for seven more days in an aim to control the coronavirus infection in the country. According to the new decision, the restrictions will remain in force till May 5. However, during

Remove Old Dhaka’s chemical warehouses

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- Sohel Manzur - April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

Once again, a terrible fire broke out in a chemical warehouse in Old Dhaka. A fire at a chemical warehouse on the ground floor of a six-storey building in Armanitola has killed at least four people and injured 20 others. Although the building is residential, a chemical warehouse was reportedly

As the viral tsunami waits to arrive

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

Bangladesh may have given priority to economics over health in its intent to relax the sort of a serious lockdown. It was never very strict in the first place and except for the first day, it was not taken too seriously either by the imposers or the imposed upon. Police

Focus on environment friendliness while developing cities

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- Sohel Manzur - April 23, 2021April 24, 2021

In these days, the temperature in the country’s big cities keeps rising. Data say, in the last two decades, the temperatures of our five main cities – Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, and Chattogram – rose by over 1.55 degree Celsius. Due to rising temperature, new diseases are increasing in urban