Nabilah Husna, Communications manager at AWARE/Channel NewsAsia According to a survey of 809 teenage boys that AWARE published last year, nine in 10 teenage boys reported facing pressures to be “manly” through experiences of harassment, bullying, teasing, social exclu ...বিস্তারিত
Cassandra Cross/The Conversation, Australia It is easy for those of us who have ignored emails from Nigerian princes or refused to transfer money on behalf of an online love interest to scroll past stories about scams, thinking it could never be us. But so far this year, ...বিস্তারিত
A.S.M Riad Arif, SARRC Silver Jubilee Scholar, South Asian University, New Delhi : According to the recent Global index by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Dhaka is now the 2nd least Liveable city of the world. And this again gives us an opportunity to Laugh louder and bl ...বিস্তারিত
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
