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International Children's Peace Prize winner

Bangladesh has got a recipient of a globally famed award considered children's Nobel Prize. The award is the International Children's Peace Prize and this year's winner is Sadat Rahman, a 17-year-old 12th grade arts student of Abdul Hai City College in Narail District under Khulna Division. If the pedigrees of...

School entry: Child-parent trauma

The number of precocious children in the country is negligible. Few parents bother about them. They are happy if their babies can, somehow, cross the bar of school admission tests. Some do it at ease. There is also another side of the coin. In spite of the urban middle-class society...

Mental health a neglected sector

Any death is painful. And it is more so if it happens at a healthcare facility. But it becomes an outrage if the death occurs as a result of excesses committed by the people passing for health professionals. Last week at a privately-run mental hospital in the city, a senior...

Our universities lag behind in world ranking

It's shocking that for years now not a single Bangladeshi university has managed to secure a place in the top 1,000 universities across the globe. However, only Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and Dhaka University (DU) have reportedly secured position in 1000+ group in the Times Higher Education...

Rangpur a candidate for economic zone

To keep pace with the development momentum, the government has rightly decided to establish 100 economic zones across the country. Economic zones provide investors with facilities and benefits for investing there. Industries founded in the zones can usually make good business and help the local community by providing job opportunities...

Goodbye Soumitra Chatterjee!

A powerful actor of Bangla movie, Soumitra Chatterjee, is no more. With his passing, the Indian cinema has lost one of its legends. Film enthusiasts of several generations will remember him for his portrayals sometimes as Apu, sometimes as Feluda, Amal for 'Charulata' or even as Biswanath Majumdar of 'BelaSeshe'.The...