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Corona-time job-losing youths

A note of gloom underlies the recently published ILO-ADB report on the present youth job situation in the Asia and Pacific region. While dwelling on Bangladesh, along with 12 other countries, the joint report observes that some 1.11 million to 1.67 million youths are feared to lose jobs in 2020....

Vaccine: Keeping all options open

The government, during the 'surprise' visit of the Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla last week, offered to conduct the phase-three trial of the vaccine being developed by the giant next-door-neighbour. The offer was reportedly voluntary. However, it is not known whether Bangladesh did try to barter the trial of...

If weather is hostile or otherwise

On the Bangla calendar, this is early Autumn with the first of the two months -Bhadra and Aswin -heralding the season of clear blue sky dotted with patches of white clouds, dew-awash sheuli and kansh (saccharum spontaneum) flowers. Strangely, right at this moment it looks more like the monsoon with...

Nature's fury, people's duty

After cyclone Amphan and floods in Bangladesh's ravaged almost 50 per cent areas, we now see rising tidal surge in the coastal belt. People in the southern region are facing a series of challenges when the coronavirus has crippled normal life and the economy. Unfortunately, the year 2020 has been...

Home-bound procession of expatriates

More than 40,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers returned home since April, the first full month of corona-induced shutdown in Bangladesh. Probably, more expatriate workers would have come back by this time, had there been no flight restrictions. Many of them are living an uncertain life abroad due to crises of cash,...

How long to wait?

It doesn't take minutes to disseminate any information should it be made public, thanks to the media. But confusions over novel coronavirus are far from over. We are yet to know when a vaccine would be ready for mass use and when the pandemic is going to end. Faced with...

Being actor, following father

The making of an artist often involves a painful story and in Bangladesh, many of the successful people had to struggle and break a number of barriers after their migration to cities. Mosharraf Karim, a now popular actor, is one of those. He pursued acting as a career even before...