Category: Cover Story

Diets that keep infectious diseases at bay Zayed Shahnewaz

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...

Looking back on 9/11 – Abu Taher Mustakim

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...

Concerns Concerning Coronavirus Abu Tahir Mustakim

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...

A tale of some first coronavirus victims -Ifrith Islam

“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...

Coronavirus Under Lens – Arno Dorian

Wuhan is locked down: nobody can enter or leave the city without a permit. Schools are closed and roads are empty. Suddenly, a city that was booming with life and economic prosperity found its place in jeopardy. In a matter of a month, the novel coronavirus has claimed more a...

A Tale of Three Drinks – Zayed Shahnewaz and Ifrith Islam

Trees and plants are important nutrient source for humans. They get various types of micronutrients from various types of plant sources. Vitamins and minerals are the main constituents humans get from vegetables and fruits. Carbohydrate comes from grains but for protein people depend on animals because animal flesh and related...

Walls  of Defiance – Teezad Tabriz

Walls of Defiance – Teezad Tabriz

Defiant regimes are constructing walls along the borders of Mexico to stop Mexicans to enter the US, along the Palestine to separate Israelis, along Bangladesh border by India and even Myanmar, Saudi Arabia along Iraq border as China did hundreds of years ago to stop robbery. Walls or bulwarks are...

3diseases 3doses 3diets – Zayed Shahnewaz

3diseases 3doses 3diets – Zayed Shahnewaz

There are many common diseases that cause human death. Everyone may be inflicted with any disease anytime. But there are some very common diseases that we can handle easily and stay protected. According to the International Classification of Diseases which identifies health trends and statistics worldwide, and contains around 55...

Inside Jammu Kashmir Law (IJKL) – Jalal Uddin Ahmed

Inside Jammu Kashmir Law (IJKL) – Jalal Uddin Ahmed

Eighteen-year-old Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim, who starred in India’s highest-grossing movie Dangal with Amir Khan, quitted the Indian film industry on June 30 because the tinsel town is incompatible with her Islamic faith. Just inside 36 days of her divorce with Indian film industry Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

The Future of Underwater Exploration

The Future of Underwater Exploration

On 27 May 2019, Kym Purcell’s schedule was thrown into disarray. Usually a Monday morning would follow a strict routine of breakfast and housework followed by a trip to the gym. But today, the 52-year-old retiree was in for a surprise. Her husband, Terry, 54, told her to get ready...

A tale of SAARC Budgets  –  Teezad Tabriz

A tale of SAARC Budgets – Teezad Tabriz

Every economy has one similarity – the basic economic problems. We have finite resources while we have infinite wants; the purpose of economic activity is to allocate resources in conditions of scarcity. Therefore, each society must answer three questions; ‘what will be produced?’, ‘how will it be produced?’ and ‘who...