Sunday, 01 Dec, 2024

Open forum

Climate penalty” from pollution and climate change

The interaction between pollution and climate change will impose an additional “climate penalty” for hundreds of millions of people, according to a new bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).  The WMO Air Quality and Climate Bulletin reports annually

Enhance food security

Food security is a challenging issue in the present world. It means having both physical and economic access of an individual to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life at all times. However, food security of a country does not always guarantee that all its people will enjoy

Renewing teaching methods

It is no denial that if a lawyer fails in the trials repeatedly, he or she becomes known as an infamous lawyer to the clients. Similarly, a doctor becomes infamous when his/her patients face ill-fate. A teacher can never be a resource to students and nation when his or her teaching hardly

SUCCESS is a POWER GLASS but sometimes it goes up and goes down!

Living on the planet, people are always crazy for SUCCESS and it is true that there is no hard and fast rule on how you can achieve it. Asking the history of success, everyone tells success is more than drinking a glass of cold water after massive hard work, discomfort, and distress.

Sayem Sobhan Anvir: who touched the pinnacle of success

His continual progression between the insurmountable destination of dreams and possibilities Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, chairman of Bashundhara Group, the nation's leading industrial conglomerate, was a visionary who visualised the nation's and its people's success. His son Sayem

So Called Bosses are at TOXIC WORKPALCES!!

Now a days it is more prevalent at the work place that the bosses are the bosom of the management who always rush to talk, to excite others, to feel burn out and to relish gossiping at all times. Is there any quick approach to make those bosses are visible at the work station? Either a

Climate change adversely affects children: Coastal salinity behind child marriage

UNICEF study has revealed how climate change is adversely affecting children's lives. Children and teenagers are paying the price in various ways including child marriage, child labor, and malnutrition. Coastal salinity is a new cause of child marriage. Rubina Akhtar living in

No reason for Bangladesh to be defaulter/ face Sri Lanka like bankruptcy crisis

Since gaining independence, Bangladesh has successfully repaid its foreign debt in order to maintain its sterling reputation abroad, according to analysts. Few eminent economists noted that the nation has never defaulted on foreign loans due to its careful management of external debt,

90’s Eid in my memory

Back when my age was eight or nine, Eid holidays spanned from 15 days to a month, and not a single day of my "holiday" was hotchpotch, which we experience now.  Those were the good time to relax, wake up late, tumbling into bed. It was around 1996 or 97 when I used to

Why do India-Bangladesh bilateral ties reflect better mutual understanding?

India continues to place a high priority on its friendship with Bangladesh in a variety of ways, and Bangladesh is given priority under the nation's "neighborhood first" policy. The connection between the two nations is greater than it has ever been, and both nations are in

Public v. Private Universities in Bangladesh 

Privatization of higher education in Bangladesh has opened a big window of opportunity for most financially capable students along with some meritorious ones. In the last three decades, the increase of such institutions bears a clear testimony of tremendous growth. At present, there are

English teaching in the digital age

Since the introduction of English in the subcontinent pedagogical practices in English teaching have been shaped and reshaped. It is no denial that the approaches towards English teaching have come out of the conventional ones. Obviously, updated approaches are being introduced in

The thing to consider of share Business for Sorting Portfolio

Portfolio sorting is an important tool in stock trading. Because based on this the investor can take his profit home. The first quality of a good stock trader is his ability to sort his portfolio. There are multiple strategies to ensure a stable income by reducing the level of risk by

Addressing the growing frustration of the educated youths 

Recently a news has got viral that an educated youth in Bogura posted an advertisement seeking tuition in exchange of meals. The very advertisement by the youth is undeniably a message to the policy-makers in the country though debates have been raised over the issue of Alamgir Kabir, the

Covid blow frustrating education sector unendingly

For more than two years Covid disaster has been ravaging the world. Even vaccination in many cases can not address the Covid-19 challenge completely as different variants of coronavirus are putting the global health system into risk. Undeniably, in the wake of unprecedented Covid-19 lives

Geopolitics, public health and climate change issues are interwoven

The pandemic of COVID-19 is a global public policy challenge. The impact of the pandemic has varied considerably from country to country, exposing inequalities and vulnerabilities in health care, political systems and economies at local, national and international levels. Disparities in

Importance of Establishing Climate-Smart Health Surveillance System in Bangladesh 

Weather and climate have a significant influence on human health. The changes in exposure to heat waves, winter cold, increases in floods, cyclones, storm surges, droughts, increased productions of air pollutants and aeroallergens like spores and molds are all considered to have direct

Climate Migration in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, one in every seven people will be displaced due to climate change by the end of 2050, according to recent estimation. Sea level rise may cause the displacement of up to 18 million people of Bangladesh. Natural disasters are another reason for displacement where 700,000

Not adulterated, we want pure food

The basic human needs are food, clothing, shelter, education and medical care. One of these basic needs is food. Article 15 of the Constitution of Bangladesh recognizes food as a basic ingredient and Article 32 recognizes it as a fundamental right to life. Pure and nutritious food is

Shame on the autocratic manner of a university teacher

It is usual that the doctor who kills his/her patient with wrong treatment, is a murderer; similarly the lawyer who regularly loses the case is infamous to the clients and obviously, those teachers are the most ignoble whose students complain against them. The society considers teachers