The geo-politics of Rohingya crisis

Almost 720,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled persecution and military crackdown and atrocities from Rakhine state of Myanmar during 2016-2017 where they had been living for centuries. Besides brutal massacres, the Rohingya houses were plundered, and scorched. The refugees are now sheltered in make-shift camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The...

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Focus on education in National Budget: Hope and anxiety

Finance Minister Mr. AMA Muhith will present the National Budget of Bangladesh for fiscal year 2018-19 today at the Jatiya Sangshad, our national parliament. This is the last budget of the present government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina .Obviously all concerned are waiting eagerly to see what the proposals...

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Of technology, its impact on scholarship

'Scholarship' is itself a quite old-fashioned term. Whenever we ask someone to think of scholarship, they usually imagine a lone individual, surrounded by books (preferably dusty ones), worriedly scribbling notes in a library. This is somewhat removed from the highly connected scholar, creating multimedia outputs and sharing these with a...

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