Our body may be termed as a ‘miracle’ as it contains 37 trillion cells, heart beats 35 million times a year, and the kidney filters 142 liters of blood a day. As our body is an absolute gift from the almighty Allah, we must take care of it. Therefore, it...
France may be the most visited country in the world for its architecture, food and fine arts but at the same time, it carries bitter memories of violence, division and broken promises. Sensible French people secreted cortisol hormone over the death of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk whom French police killed in...
Bangladesh is a riverine country enriched in beauty by the rivers following all across. It is crisscrossed by more than 200 waterways. Rivers are the lifeblood of this country since they help shape the geographical landscape, play a vital role in maintaining the balance of the ecosystem as well as...
Currently, the global recession of democracy has begun. Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Jarosław Kaczyński of Poland, Jair Bolsanaro of Brazil, Donald Trump of the United States, and Narendra Modi of India; are all democratically elected. Some of them are still in power. There are some democracies like Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh...
The loss of lives of millions of people due to famine during British colonial rule is well known. Most famines pave the way for regime changes as they are not natural disasters. It is a man-made disaster as failure in the food management remains the core cause of this disaster....
Rebuilding is going on in Turkey and Syria after these countries were hit by massive earthquakes in the wee hours on 6th February, 2023. It was one of the most devastating natural calamities in recent time that left more than fifty thousand people dead and nearly a million people injured....
What if all the companies are automated and 99.99 per cent employees of the formal economy of the whole world are laid off? Will there be any change in company laws which mandate firms to have a required number of employees to stay registered? If Fortune 500 replaces 99.99 per...
When Lionel Messi was adorned with — bisht— traditional Arab robe by Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, western media houses targeted Muslims and Islam. And thus the international particularly Western media became exposed to the whole world because of their racist attitude shown before, during and after...
The greatest show on earth i.e. FIFA World Cup football is being held in Qatar. The tournament was kicked off on 20th November and the grand final match was played on 18th December with Argentina emerging as champion. The tournament reached the peak of excitement as it progressed to the...
Though the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war has kicked the issue of Taliban rule of Afghanistan into the long grass or put the post-American invasion era on the back burner, a question is being debated among the Western policymakers and academicians. Even high schoolers are being assigned to do projects on Afghanistan...
In 1996, in his book ‘The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order’, Samuel Huntington argued that the post-Cold War future of global conflicts would be fought between civilisations and that there would be clashes between the Christian West and Islamic and Sinic Civilisations of the East. In...
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...
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