UNB, Washington : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the Bangladeshi diaspora to tell the world about various irregularities,...
Day: September 30, 2022
UNB, Panchagarh : Bangladesh’s export-import activities with India, Nepal and Bhutan via the Banglabandha land port will remain suspended for...
Online Desk: Bangladesh reported another Covid-linked death with 708 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning. With the new...
UNB, Magura : Two youths on a bike were killed after being hit by a microbus in Shalikha upazila of...
AP, LONDON Britain’s Royal Mint has unveiled the first coins to feature the portrait of King Charles III. Britons will...
UNB, Dhaka : A moderate-intensity earthquake jolted Dhaka and other parts of the country in the early hours of Friday....
Online Desk : The overall number of global Covid cases has now crossed 622 million. According to the latest global...
UNB, Goalanda : Ferry services from the third and fourth terminals in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district have been suspended...
The world, including President Vladimir Putin himself, knows that the Moscow-orchestrated “referendums” in the four partially occupied Ukrainian regions are...
The rate of cesarean deliveries has increased almost eight-fold in Bangladesh. In 2004, the rate stood at four percent. However, a recent analysis revealed that the rate was found to be 33 per cent in 2017-18.The World Health Organisation’s recommendations suggest the rate should not cross 15 per cent of the total birth deliveries. Bangladesh exceeds the standards set by its neighbours as well, in this regard. The rate of caesarean delivery was found to be 22 per cent in...
The Conversation It’s hard to avoid encountering the term “toxic masculinity” in these days. It has been linked to Australian soldiers’ war crimes in Afghanistan, the Morrison government’s low credibility with women in the lead-up to this year’s election-and further a field, the rise of Donald Trump and the Capitol riots.It is regularly applied to pop-culture characters as diverse as the hypersensitive dinosaur nerd Ross Gellar from Friends, the alcoholic adulterer Don Draper in Mad Men, and the violent, repressed...
Debate on corporal punishment Here in the USA we are aware that Sir Frank Peters has long campaigned forcefully for school teachers to respect the Bangladesh High Court ban on corporal punishment and for parents to demand that their children be spared from it.In his provocative reports he calls for an end to this violence against children and says “Any school that allows corporal punishment is a breeding ground for terrorists”. I enthusiastically agree with Sir Frank and it should...
