Shazzad Khan :Once termed as ‘basket case’ by the Western boasters, Bangladesh has got into the highway of graduating from LDC category just recently. Whoever says what, I feel proud of it. And I have reasons to say this.Before and after the declaration from the CDP (Committee for Development Policy) of the United Nations on last 17th March, which also coincided Bangabandhu’s 98th birth anniversary, I saw a number of articles and views on risks and opportunities of Bangladesh’s LDC...
Iain Begg :There is no doubt that Brexit will be disruptive, whether politically, economically or institutionally. But a much more open question is what effect the disruption will have on economic well-being and, specifically, on job prospects – the outcomes that ultimately matter most to citizens.Much will depend on the nature of the deals to be struck (and there are many layers to the forthcoming negotiations to take into account), not only between the UK and the EU27, but also...
Amjed Jaaved :It is painful to see Kashmiris suffer under India’s yoke. But, the bitter truth is that Kashmiri leaders themselves misled their people. Pandit Jawahar Lal Kaul (assumed surname Nehru) managed to befool Sheikh Abdullah. Barkha Dutt recalls (This Unquiet Land, p. 154), `In a 1948 speech to the United Nations, Sheikh Abdullah, the most formidable political leader the state of Jammu and Kashmir had ever seen, made a blistering defence of the accession to India. Sher-e-Kashmir (Lion of...
Rayhan Ahmed Topader :Under current rules, asylum seekers can only work after waiting at least 12 months for their claim to be processed. Even then, they can only take roles on the government’s shortage occupation list, which includes nurses but otherwise mainly experienced or highly specific roles such as ballet dancers, orchestral musicians and oil and gas engineers. A group of actors, artists and other notable figures including Jodie Whittaker, Jude Law, Anna Friel and Antony Gormley have made a...
Alaul Alam :Bangladesh has made tremendous advancement to produce various products locally. Apart from agricultural brands the industrial brands are...
Chowdhury Zafor Sadeque :Ever since Pakistan achieved strategic parity in the military balance of power with India following the nuclearization of the two conutries, India has attempted to evolve strategies to regain the military superiority it had enjoyed before the advent of nuclear weapons in the subcontinent. For Pakistan, matching the burgeoning Indian conventional military might was economically nusustainable and the nuclear option has practically stymied India from attempting any major military adventure against it. The Indians learned this bitter...
Md. Arafat Rahman :The present society is plagued by a destructive social menace namely corruption. Corruption means unprincipled and immoral misconduct. It can be said that corruption occurs when people act arbitrarily by violating the principles by showing arbitrariness. In fact, corruption is a widespread and complex suffix. Corruption is a special type of criminal behavior that is contrary to the prevailing principles, norms and values of the society. It involves the misuse of profession, power, privileges, titles, etc.Billions of...
Sophie Edwards :A British teacher has won a $1 million prize to recognize the crucial yet often undervalued role of teachers – something that experts warn developing countries in particular need to embrace in order to address the global “learning crisis.”Now in its fourth year, the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize – sometimes described as the “Nobel prize” for teachers – was awarded to Andria Zafirakou at a glitzy ceremony at the end of the two-day Global Skills & Education...
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :As one of the selected books, I have gone through the book “People and Democracy” by...
In a stunning example of “real” fake news, the “Muslims” featured in photographs provided during a government-controlled tour as evidence that Rohingya were setting fire to their own homes turned out to be the same group of people-dressed up as Muslims-that journalists had interviewed earlier.Pointing to the ashes of a destroyed village that was once home to dozens of Rohingya Muslim families, the abbot of a nearby Buddhist monastery insisted he knew who had set it ablaze. It was the...
Badrul Huda Sohel :Almost every month of the year carries the significance of various tragic events of our liberation war. September is also the same, rather a little bit more significance as noted humanitarian American poet Allen Ginsberg, a genuine friend of our liberation war of 1971, wrote “September on Jessore Road” with the essence of the brutality of the Pakistan occupation forces against us.The 152-line poem “September on Jessore Road” is so vivid that even if a lay reader...
Christopher Walker :Russia and China tend to do poorly in global public opinion surveys and indices of soft power, reinforcing the notion that attraction and persuasion are incompatible with authoritarianismIn recent years, Russia and China have poured considerable resources into arenas typically associated with “soft power,” a term coined by the American political scientist Joseph S. Nye and understood as the “ability to affect others by attraction and persuasion.” Either directly or through compliant surrogates, these two countries have devoted...