Saturday marked the first anniversary of the latest mass exodus of the stateless Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state into Bangladesh. An ethnic cleansing resorted to by the Myanmar military and their cohorts forced them to leave their homeland. By now, over 700 thousand Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh since...
Read moreGENOA — Is our infrastructure safe? In the aftermath of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, this is the question on everybody's mind. Of course, we could argue that disasters like this are one-offs, and even believe that they may be peculiar to Italy - a country where...
Read moreIt is learnt on good authority that since his assumption of office in Malaysia on May 9,2018, prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad has expressed concern over methods of recruitment to the Malaysian labour market. He made a particular mention of Bangladesh saying that an organised circle (an euphemism for 'racket')...
Read moreA recent survey has found that nearly a third of the total number of houses in Dhaka city is home to Aedes mosquitoes. It is well known that these mosquitoes are the carriers of dengue fever. They live in clear, stagnant water that often gathers in the empty plant pots,...
Read moreOn May 9 of this year, rickshaw-puller Jahangir Alam was admitted to a drug addiction rehabilitation centre in Darussalam of Dhaka. He was addicted to Yaba, marijuana and heroin. On August 23, an unconscious Jahangir was taken to a nearby hospital where duty doctors declared him dead. Injury marks were...
Read moreNearly, 800 million people across the world are facing extreme poverty. They also have no access to education and other basic human necessities. Developed and developing countries are still spending on weapons and military rather than on education and poverty eradication. Take the example of India. The country spends a...
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