Mystery of the WCF Many football experts say that Brazil and Germany are the co-favourites in the 21st edition of the World Cup Football, the greatest show on earth. Contrarily others comment there are no clear favourites, rather the mystery of the competition is that the fixture has been prepared in such a way as the two co-favourites may meet one another in the very second round if one of them become group champions and the other finish as group...
Pete Spotts :As global warming progresses, look for increasing expanses of majestic forests worldwide to become short and scrubby.That is the implication of a new study that applies a well-established principle of fluid flow to the inner workings of vegetation. The analysis doesn’t attempt to specify timing or specific locations where such shifts in vegetation would occur. Instead, it uses the principle known as Darcy’s law to explore the general types of vegetation most likely and least likely to survive...
Components of the Constitution The students of Political Science study the Constitutions of a number of countries, including that of the USA. Anyone who reads the US Constitution is charmed by its three famous characteristics–Doctrine of Implied Power, Checks and Balance System and the Supremacy of the Judiciary. President Abraham Lincoln, who save his country from disintegration, said, democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. He said it in his famous Gettysburg speech....
A CLASS-X student committed suicide in Chattogram on Thursday just after police officers reportedly tortured him and his family members at their house. Police denied any responsibility, however, suspended a Sub-Inspector and formed a two-member committee to investigate the allegations. Locals said that the police torture forced the young man to hang himself and also demonstrated against police torture on people. The police force in the country has long been acted as an organised gang in torturing innocent for money...
Gazi Md. Abdur Rashid :Women education refers to every form of education that aims at improving the knowledge, and skill...
Stop coaching business Most school teachers in our country are not interested in teaching students in class as they are heavily involved in the coaching business. The whole system has become ineffective due to the corruption of teachers and the coaching business. Parents pay a lot of money to schools every year as admission fee, development fee, session fee, exam fee, etc. And the education system has turned into one kind of big business.To save the future generations of this...
Pat Walsh :Over the past few years, we have experienced an incredible wave of social innovations that are changing the lives of millions of people around the world. Kite Patch is a product being developed that will block a mosquitoes’ ability to track humans-it has the potential to change mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, West Nile virus and dengue fever. Embrace is a watch that alerts loved ones when patients with epilepsy experience an unusual event like a convulsive seizure-it has...
Sir Frank Peters :A highway billboard in Amarillo, Texas, that screams ‘beat your children’ to thousands of passing onlookers daily is creating a raucous across America and in other parts of the world and causing people to stop in their tracks and pay attention.And what may come as a surprise to many readers, especially Justice Imman Ali and Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif who banned corporal punishment in Bangladesh schools in 2011, is the fact that I (an anti corporal punishment...
Tibor Navracsics :Over the coming days, thousands of young people from across Europe will come together for this year’s European Youth Event and YO!Fest to discuss how to bring about change. And indeed, Europe needs the energy and creativity of its young generations to overcome the big challenges it is facing, and to build strong, open societies.This is critical today, as our fundamental values of freedom, democracy, human dignity and mutual respect are under attack. Terrible terrorist attacks, most recently...
Freedom of will The Muslim scholars enriched philosophy of dialectics and rationalism towards the close of the Abbaside dynasty. Al-Mamun, during his caliphate (813 to 833 A.D.) was the ardent patron of the doctrine, which, however, did not last long due to the oppositions from the different quarters including Imam Ahmad-bin-Hambal.When Hazrat Adam (AS) said to Allah: I am giving 60 years to Daud from my account, Allah said: It is the matter between you two. This Hadith defends the...
Hate begets hate We from the core of our heart hate them who schemed and attacked the Gulshan restaurant and killed as many as 20 innocent people, including foreigners, before the Eid, and those who killed two policemen and a woman at Sholakia in Kishoreganj on the Eid Day. We abhor them because they were part of the design to destabilize the country.I do not know their philosophy, but I am sure that they are ignorant, misguided and detracted. The...
PUBLIC Private Partnership (PPP) was considered as a new investment paradigm to develop a congenial business environment in FY 2009-10. The government then allocated some Tk 85 billion funds for implementing different schemes in that fiscal under PPP, but it is appalling that not a single penny was spent that year. The outcomes under PPP plans in the following years were also not favourable. We are therefore apprehensive about the concern that the business community expressed in a roundtable on...