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A rover is spinning through the desert on the red planet Mars. Enjoying selfies. It is a real busy time in search of life. People are enjoying those moments sitting back at home on the Earth about five and a half crore kilometres away. Managing the affairs of the world...

Two themes dominated the minds of the Norwegian Nobel Committee of 2021 as these two pressing problems have been very logically plaguing the planet for a long time. The issues certainly are climate change along with the refugee crisis and media muzzling. These problems are certainly the fallouts of international...

Fifty years is not a long time in the history of the world. But in this period of recent history, the role of the United States has been hotly debated whenever the question of global policing came up. It is not clear what the United States wanted about the liberation...

Nowadays people are talking about different kinds of diets because they are more concerned about their health as Covid-19 pandemic has hammered the whole world. It is true people, particularly those in the service sector, now think more about their workloads and thus eat a lot of processed foods and...

Despite having so many rivers and canals, Dhaka with dirt and poor drainage here and there, is one of least liveable cities in the world. The loss and disappearance of canals to the land grabbers in Bangladesh may be followed by huge media cry or environmentalists staging demonstrations. Nobody can...

The list of philanthropists is made on the basis of the information provided by the philanthropists or their agents or organisations. But at the corporate level, companies do some philanthropic work which is called corporate social responsibility, better known as CSR. For this CSR the corporates earmark most of the...

An opposition is no opposition when it is not creative enough to befool the oppressive people in power. A regime must be weighed in properly so that it can be repaid in the same coin by the people out of power corridor. A defender of people or human rights must...

We see hundreds of people around us everyday but we can’t see their inner selves. We actually come across different types of skins and faces. In the days of coronavirus pandemic, mandatory use of masks has made the act of seeing other’s external organs even more difficult in neo-normal situation....

From bees and ants to whales and apes, all animals communicate with each other and none of them had to fight with a regime for their rights to speak the language of their mother but Bangalis had to shed blood on February 21 in 1952. February 21st is declared by...

“In the room women come and go Talking of Michelangelo” English Poet TS Eliot, in his poet ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, talked about common people discussing about the dexterity and artistic excellence of one of the greatest Italian sculptors Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. The common folks,...

This big wide world houses many types of people. Not everyone looks the same, speaks the same language, eats the same food, or does the same thing. In short, there are different groups of people living across the world. Now, differences can be a result of different nationality, religion, ethnicity,...

The more the regimes, the more the protests— has been the signature feature of our once peaceful planet where we are bound to live on. The more the persecution, the more the protesters. Number of demonstrations is in proportion to abuses of human rights. The more the deprived section protests,...

Flu vaccination shields one from flu, similarly vaccination against measles can make vaccinated guys safe from measles. But when there is no vaccine for any health crisis like coronavirus,people must have some protective gears and measures. People may also need to know about potential diets that cure more than the...

Even the doctors, whose medical education is highly focused on medicine, despicably depended upon the diets during a surprise international health crisis like coronavirus and ended up being a staunch believer in age-old proverb ‘diet cures more than the doctor’. The coronavirus crippled the planet exposing that the humanity is...

At 8:45 AM in the morning on September 11, 2001, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story...

Whole world is now passing through a very crucial time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Governments of many countries of the world have declared lockdown. In order to save the lives, people are instructed to stay at home cut off from the outside world. In fear of contracting coronavirus, people...

The exercise ran quite well in great extravaganza. It was in broad daylight, in front of tech savvy eyes. There were a lot of applauses. Many techy spectators were visualising the future world through this display of this mega gadget. However, many have uttered cautions against apparent alternative to human...

“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing, memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” English Poet TS Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” best rhymes with the coronavirus-ravaged world as its inhabitants died in April. Bangladesh is no exception to this. April turns...