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Non-compliance with Covid safeguard measures

Health professionals across the world are yet to effectively tame the novel coronavirus. The deadly pathogen is still claiming at least three to four dozen lives and infecting a few thousands every day in the country. The severity of the pandemic is far more intense in many more countries. Medical...

Air pollution causing hazards to local environment

A recent World Air Quality Report says Bangladesh has the most polluted air in the world and Dhaka is the second most polluted capital city. At a country level, the new report says weighted by population, Bangladesh emerges as the most polluted country in the world. Gurgaon, a suburb of...

Dhaka's mobile alleyway vendors

Not long ago people living in the reputably quiet neighbourhoods in the capital used to rise from bed to the sweet warble of different kinds of birds. After all, chirping birds have not yet fully disappeared from this city plagued by cacophonous noise and air pollutions. The ubiquitous crows notwithstanding,...

Amid frustrations and hopes

Bangladesh, like any other nation, is waiting anxiously to see a coronavirus vaccine is developed soon. However, despite all efforts by over a dozen nations, it would not be easy to produce and distribute adequate quantity of vaccines for billions of people. So, the poorer nations are at higher risks...

Japan's Abe still apologises!

It's surprising how Shinzo Abe led Japan as the longest serving prime minister in the country's recent history with so much physical challenges. He tried to bring Japan out of economic recession exacerbated by the coronavirus crisis. Reports of his resignation prior to announcement affected the stock market.He was candid...

Killer awarded what he deserves

"Your crimes are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment." This is what a New Zealand judge told Brenton Tarant, a white supremacist, who skilled 51 Muslim devotees during mosque shootings in Christchurch last year. Shown no mercy...

Obesity during covid-19

Many people are gaining weight staying home for months, especially in clumsy cities where residents have hardly any scope to move in the neighbourhood. A study based on global data gives bad news too -Obesity increases the risk of dying of Covid-19 by nearly 50 per cent. Apprehensions are also...