Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto: The news of Kofi Annan’s death reached to me as a great shock through our Toronto’s 24 hours TV news channel and accordingly I made two posts in my Twitter and Facebook accounts: ‘The first ever African Secretary-General of the Unite ...বিস্তারিত
Dr Essam Yousef/Middle East Montior Once again, the dust of fruitless political thinking and the “demagoguery” that plagued the Palestinian cause from the very beginning have surfaced to deny Gaza the right to get a fresh start and revert to life, after it was transfo ...বিস্তারিত
Monzur Morshed Patwary/BRAC Asma Jannat and Munni Aktar, two classmates from Cox’s Bazaar, had to drop out of school when they were in class 8. Their families could no longer afford to keep them in school. What they faced later is a story that is all too common in South ...বিস্তারিত
Dr Muhammad Abdul Mazid, Former Chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR) : Banking business in the country will be difficult if discipline cannot be brought back. The banking sector face a hard time unless some reforms are made to it. Many people are taking away money fro ...বিস্তারিত
Prof Dr Ajoy Roy, Physicist, Educationist: The quota reformists are being targeted and becoming of victims of torture. They are also being apprehended from wherever they are found. Even the female students are not spared. Why the arrestees are denied bail? This is not ri ...বিস্তারিত
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan/ Al jazeera BBC's 'Lost Boys?' is a lazy reproduction of racist, culturally essentialist stereotypes approved by an 'insider'. Two nights ago I found myself gripped by BBC Two's new, "Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong for Asian Men?" presented by Me ...বিস্তারিত
BSS Taking the burden of her five-member family expenses on her tiny shoulder, 10-year Rokhsana works at a bidi factory in Lalmonirhat leaving her out of education, a basic right of children. Living in Kalmatirpara of Lalmonirhat district, she has been preparing bidi sh ...বিস্তারিত
Abu Ahmed, Professor of Economics, Dhaka University: The rawhide traders of the country are cashing in on the easy bank loans. The traders failing to pay back bank loans should not be given any loan further. The traders have taken it for granted that it is not necessary ...বিস্তারিত
Anjana Susarla, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University/WION news When Facebook recently removed several accounts for trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections, it was the company’s latest move acknowledging the key challenge facing th ...বিস্তারিত
Molly Fosco/OZY.com A kindergarten teacher tells her students to form a circle on the floor while she takes attendance. A stampede of 5-year-olds scrambles over, and after several minutes spent squirming and rearranging limbs, they finally manage to settle down into some ...বিস্তারিত