Category: Cover Story

The fossil record indicates that the average mammal species lasts a million years. By this measure, we have about 700,000 years ahead of us. During this time, even if humanity remained earthbound at just one-tenth of the current world population, a staggering ten trillion people would be born in the...

Every year, 14 and 15th August are heydays for the Pakistan and India of the subcontinent, as they celebrate independence days and pay tribute to all liberation warriors. This year is the 75th anniversary of the Indo-Pak subcontinent’s independence from British colonizers, marking a lengthy journey for India and Pakistan...

Belief in the Oneness of God is the most fundamental principle of Islam; Prayer-regulates the believer’s relationship with God; Zakah-controls his relations with society; fasting-exercises and strengthens his will: the Hajj- offers Muslims, as one nation, the opportunity to exercise the high principles, values and objectives upon which Islam bases...

You may have heard of war history in ancient manuscripts or punthi in Bangla literature. In their hyperbolic rhetoric, the stories will detail how soldiers in their millions died in the war — what is not always true. On paper, the death toll may be million but, on the ground,...

World media is in surprise. In the Russia-Ukraine war, soldiers of both sides chanted the same sound-‘Allahu Akbar’. Muslim armies are fighting on both sides — Ukraine and Russia. Chechen Muslims have come to the battlefield on behalf of Russia and the Muslims of Ukraine are fighting to stop the...

A team of Bangladeshi scientists recently disclosed the lack of an enzyme – “Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (IAP)” in human bodies may cause diabetes. On March 23 in 2022, the researchers in a press conference at BIRDEM Hospital in Dhaka claimed the enzyme IAP deficiency as a newly-detected cause for diabetes....

It felt like a scene from the Cold War. An unpredictable Russian leader was amassing troops and tanks on a neighbour’s border. Then the cold war turned hot: Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade Ukraine. The repercussions were immediate and far-reaching. A devastating attack on Ukraine, a European country...

With global temperature rising and ice sheets melting, which causes sea level to rise, plenty of coastal cities across the world are facing impending risks of flooding, water logging or going underwater. Few islands like Maldives, Togo and deltaic land Bangladesh face crucial challenges. The Indonesian city of Jakarta is...

“What Dhaka University thinks today, the whole country thinks about it the next day”, “people can gather knowledge even by walking through the corridor of Dhaka University”, “Oxford of the East”, etc are some of the most popular compliments Bangladeshis tag on historic seat of higher education which is known...

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...