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Proper healthcare management key to handle pandemic

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- Sohel Manzur - April 18, 2021April 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic is spreading more widely across the world. Concerns are growing over the issue of surging human infections and deaths in Bangladesh as well. Now, it is urgent to make a concerted and vigorous effort to deal with this crisis. Reports about health management during the time of

Protecting Haor crop crucial

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- Sohel Manzur - April 17, 2021April 17, 2021

In a few days, Boro paddy in the country’s Haor areas will start ripening. Farmers of these areas are now taking preparations at every house to harvest the crop. However, the fear of natural disasters is also looming. The pre-monsoon hot season is already active in Bangladesh. There has been

Movement Pass: The more laws, the more flaws

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- Sohel Manzur - April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

The Bangladesh Police have recently launched an app to take applications seeking a pass for movement during the lockdown. It will allow citizens to move out of their homes for up to three hours during the strict lockdown declared nationwide from 14 April to 21 April. The app has also

Why go for building new Covid hospitals?

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- Sohel Manzur - April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

Perhaps, the setting up of the Bashundhara Covid-19 temporary hospital on a sudden decision and shuttering the same within only a few months is one of the glaring examples of poor planning of Covid-19 management by the health department of Bangladesh. During early months of the virus outbreak in the

Can the lockdown deliver much?

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

The problem with the lockdown is that it’s a formal method that requires a level of discipline and order that is rarely seen in Bangladesh in general let alone the health sector. It involves herd behavior management of various groups and classes. As the lockdown nears, people are more in

The new variant and the old mentality

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 12, 2021April 12, 2021

Corona or Covid-19 has returned with venom never expected by anyone. Its infection capacity is far higher than the first surge seen last year and its felling people with a rapidity that is swift and not discriminating. Neither the rich and the famous nor the ordinary poor are being spared.

Lockdown and the return of fear

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

The return of lockdown is a sign of desperation to control a pandemic which is proving a task for all countries. Bangladesh had a weak one almost a year back which basically flopped. People have survived till date because of the nature of the virus and not because of any

Sexuality and politics in the time of corona

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 7, 2021April 10, 2021

The Hefazat leader who was found at an expensive resort with a woman who many are saying is/isn’t his wife is the biggest news in town. PM Sk. Hasina and other leaders have gone public saying that the lady in question is not his wife. Hefazat meanwhile has declared his

The taming of Hefazat

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 5, 2021April 10, 2021

That people who live in glass houses should not throw stones was proven on the 3rd of April as Hefazat leader Mamunul Haq was found in a resort with a lady he claimed to be his second wife. As the storm grew and he was about to be taken in,

India’s Myanmar dilemma reflects a changing world

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- Afsan Chowdhury - April 3, 2021April 3, 2021

Once India worried only about Pakistan but now its headaches is spread across the region. The recent border cease-fire with Pakistan indicates that Pakistan is only one of its problems. Maybe the biggest but others are there too. For the moment, Myanmar doesn’t look good for India. It had hoped that