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Scoring better on hunger index

Bangladesh has moved 13 notches up from last year's 88th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranking, says the 2020 GHI report. Which means among the 107 qualifying nations Bangladesh has now been ranked 75th with a score of 20.4 points on the GHI.Actually, Bangladesh, considering its score, falls...

Pandemic and hunger scourge

The world is lately witnessing debates and smokescreens over the process of treating the Covid-19 pandemic. The clashes of ideas and theories raging for some time are feared to cause a delay to the invention of a foolproof cure for the scourge. Meanwhile, another scourge has started panicking many nations....

Angry youths of Thailand

Angry Thai youths seem to be in a defiant, determined mood despite the government's declaring a state of emergency slapping a ban on any assembly of more than five and restricting publication of news or online messages that the government thinks might harm national security. Undaunted, the youths demonstrating to,...

Beyond growth-centric concerns

We are often told that the global economy is going to contract or Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is set to decelerate to 1.6-3.8 per cent, due to coronavirus effects. And we see debates and reactions to such forecast, as if projection itself will affect life and society. For...

Taking workers' issue centre-stage

Concerned at health risks and economic uncertainties, we in Bangladesh are trying to overcome the current crisis by focusing on recovery of the economy, keeping the supply chains intact and securing the flow of money including remittances and export proceeds. We are also talking about loss of jobs and livelihoods...

Joining global race for vaccine

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently listed three Covid-19 candidate vaccines developed by Bangladesh's Globe Biotech Ltd in its draft landscape. This is really a piece of good news for Bangladesh because with this, the country has entered the global race for a Covid-19 vaccine. Earlier, a globally recognised...

Reckless dumping of wastes

More than 30,000 tonnes of plastic wastes are dumped into four rivers surrounding the capital Dhaka, according to a survey report. Rivers and other water bodies are full of such wastes all over the country, and our entire generation is waiting for an environmental disaster. Littering of used facemasks, gloves...