It may be coincidental that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has a weakness for the month of March! The Islamic nation-state possibly felt the month of March was a ‘holy’ month or lucky month for the ruthless crackdown in Balochistan and after 23 years sadistically repeated it in Bangladesh. Maybe the fortune-tellers
1st Anniversary Part-1
Climate change: An alarming issue for Bangladesh
Climate change is compounding the environmental dangers that Bangladesh's low-income people are facing, leaving them unable to appropriately shelter, nourish, and educate their children, according to Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF. She made this comment during a visit to the country in early March 2019. It is a worldwide phenomenon driven
Print media through testing times
Bangladesh can replicate model of medical tourism
Bangladesh can replicate the model of medical tourism like countries of India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore in the mid-and long-term by ensuring some steps like improvement in nursing, extensive, rigorous and higher hands-on training of doctors, good behavior of the persons engaged in health services and better hospital services. Senior politicians,
Digital Banking: Technology in financial services
One hundred and fifty-four years ago, when transatlantic cable was successfully installed, it was basically the beginning of financial technology (fintech). From 1800 to 1913, it was known as Fintech 1.0. The ATM machine was installed at Barclays Bank in England in 1986, a period known as the FinTech 2.0
The crisis in Ukraine has disturbing echoes of the 1930s
If the 1930s teach us anything, it is that things can fall apart easily. An international order carefully held together through institutions designed to preserve peace can unravel overnight. Faced with German aggression, the post-Versailles order collapsed at a mere push of the finger. Czechoslovakia disappeared from the map of
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Challenges of Bangladesh media in transition
Afsan Chowdhury Bangladesh media continues to live in semi-denial as it goes through transition and the so-called professional media faces increasing pressure from many forces particularly social media. This shift of focus from the professional to the individual/social space is historically significant. For the first time, the media has become a