It has been more than a year since Covid-19 was first detected in Bangladesh. Much has been, and continues to be, said about the country’s handling of the pandemic.
The words “quarantine” and “isolation” have now become synonymous with the coronavirus outbreak. Social media has exploded with status updates,
The coronavirus outbreak—which seems straight out of the sci-fi thriller Contagion—has led to over 7,989 deaths and 198,736 cases worldwide. As we try to make sense out of truths that seem stranger than fiction, the WHO-declared pandemic has laid bare the fact that in an era where globalisation reigns supreme, infectious diseases no longer simply pose the risk of transnational movement of bacterial and viral infections.
Post-WWII, Bangladesh, along with countries which had been freed from the shackles of colonisation and had gained their independence, embarked upon the journey of “development”.
Going by numerous recent news reports, we have good reason to be worried about the state of food safety in the country.
A particular finding in the latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) blows the illusion of GDP growth being the “be all and end all” of development into smithereens.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not entitlement or narcissism or laziness that defines millennials. If anything, it's probably a sense of disillusionment that's a defining characteristic of this generation.
Defiance of the BNBC stems from the ways that it can provide immediate benefit to owners and often the users and the developers of buildings. For example, rules are violated to achieve maximum use of space when land itself is costly.
The ILO Convention No. 121 is only partly followed since Bangladesh has not ratified this Convention. The claims system does not take into account things such as the deceased's or injured's children's future education, and the gravity of injuries.
#PrayForBeirut in no way means "Don't pray for Paris". It means that we need to be more inclusive in our calls for justice and show of sympathy.
The Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac) rolled out its first domestically built large passenger aircraft on November 2. Called the Comac C919, the airliner will have to undergo tests before its first flight takes off next year.
China's $1.5 billion Brahmaputra dam, known as Zangmu Hydropower Station, has raised some serious concerns in India and
Coupled with a lack of general knowledge about the issue and rising costs of healthcare, access to medical resources is becoming increasingly difficult. In short, the existing system of mental healthcare delivery is simply not functioning as well as it should.
Uestion paper leak phenomena in Bangladesh are as old as the hills. We read or hear about such instances every single year. In light of
Given the prominent roles these nations have in reducing the once thriving Middle Eastern country to rubble and displacing millions in the process, it is nothing short of hypocrisy for them to essentially demand refugees to respect their borders when they had no qualms about invading Syria's border.
Barely an hour's rainfall on the first day of September brought Dhaka city to a near collapse. Dhakaites all throughout the capital
Unlike the people of Lebanon who are taking to their rubbish strewn streets to demand the removal of mountains of garbage, we in Bangladesh have resigned ourselves to the fate of living indefinitely in revoltingly filthy conditions.
On December 17 1999, the UN General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth that August 12 be declared International Youth Day.
