Opinion

Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 02:40 am

শিরোনাম :

Israel continues strike on Syria military sites Rayo stymie Real’s climb to Liga summit Tk 14,000 set as minimum wage for cold storage workers BNP suggests reforms for public administration overhaul Probes, trials of war crimes cases stalled Coldwave hampers daily life across Bangladesh Dhaka becomes 3rd most polluted city with AQI score of 283 Body of JU student recovered from dormitory 550 individuals’ Tk 15,000cr frozen for investigation Financial Accountability: Critical step towards new future

Opinion

The political economy of COVID-19

GOVERNMENTS around the world are attempting to prop up a failing capitalist system by — surprise! — throwing money at wealthy individuals and corporations, especially in the financial industry. In

Learning to teach

by Raghavendra P Tiwari: IT IS largely believed that the education system is neither creating enough 21st-century global skills in students to meet the industry requirement nor training them in

Trump mixes religion with race in re-election bid

PRESIDENT Donald Trump saw another opportunity for his failing re-election bid, namely using religion, when demonstrators protesting the murder of George Floyd lit a small fire in the basement of

Locust Panic No More in Bangladesh

COVID-19 pandemic could now be fusing into a hunger pandemic – apprehend WFP. Bangladesh is now fighting to ensure food security of her huge population under uncertain lockdown situation. Just

A Wake-up Call for Gender Responsive Social Protection

“Social protection is a human right” and is enshrined as such in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and in other major United Nations human rights instruments. The main

‘Charter of Freedom’ for Bengalees

by Sheikh Hasina : WE OBSERVE June 7 as the Six-Point Day. The year 2020 has appeared as a unique year in the life of the Bengalees. This year is

Coronavirus Pandemic and Education in Emergencies

The spectre of COVID-19 has descended on the planet so suddenly that almost all spheres of human life have been caught off guard. And education is no exception. It has

Devastation of Cyclone Amphan: Experiences from the Field

Cyclone Amphan has reportedly killed at least 72 people in India and 16 in Bangladesh and many more were injured. Amphan was the most powerful cyclone to strike eastern India

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease, caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus SARS-CoV-2- a member of a family of viruses that primarily affects the respiratory system. It was

Fallacy of epidemiological modelling

MODELLING in Bangladesh, recently talked about publicly, took into account factors such as shutdown, physical distancing, awareness, susceptibility, infectiousness, recovery, etc. Optimistic and worst-case scenarios gave figures of 40,000–100,000 incidence