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Opinion
On December 31, 1948 during the East Pakistan Literary Conference in Dhaka, Dr Muhammad Shahidullah had said, “We may be Hindus or Muslims, but ultimately we belong to same Bengali culture". He made this comment within a year of the bloody partition of undivided India resulting in fissure...
Special Supplement
In one of the rare instances as I was sitting in the office of the Secretary to the Hon’ble President at Bangabhaban last year my attention was drawn to the honour list proudly displaying the names of the Principal Secretaries and Secretaries to the Hon’ble President of the country since...
In today’s innovation driven world, the old English saying, ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, would better be said as ‘necessity is the mother of innovation’. The poor crow had to invent simply to drink water to mitigate it’s thirst. Today’s innovation...
Today is July 28 - World Hepatitis Day. The day was first celebrated in 2011. Since then ten years have passed. World Hepatitis Day is among the eight days endorsed by the World Health Organization. Hepatitis B virus was first discovered by a US Haematologist Professor Blumberg in the serum sam...
Seeds of the Indo-Bangla relations were sowed during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. During the nine months of our liberation war, India not only provided shelter to millions of our people, who fled to escape atrocities of unprecedented magnitude and war crimes committed by the occupying P...
The world order had changed after World War II and so will it again in the post COVID-19 era. With COVID-19 impacting every sphere of our lives in every country and territory in every corner of the world, this pandemic is nothing less than the third world war that the world is currently facing. ...
As the budget is knocking at the door, this year it will be special in all respects. The nation is going to prepare a budget to face a pandemic for the first time in it’s existence. Logically and naturally fund allocated to the health sector in the next budget will be on the radar of all conce...
Over the years it has been my unique opportunity, despite being a doctor, to come in contact with eminent intellectuals and knowing them closely going beyond my profession. This has been possible due to my affiliation with different civil society organizations like ‘Sampritee Bangladesh&r...
Much is being discussed and talked about these days about hydroxychloroquine, the wonder drug for malaria, which on one hand is being considered by many these days as a ray of hope for treatment of COVID-19, while there are still others who like to take it more casually identifying it as the ‘...
As the unseen enemy dictates the terms of our lives these days, several words that were previously absent in our vocabulary like coronavirus, COVID-19, quarantine, epicentre, lock down and so on so forth have become part and parcel of our daily lives. We were the 104th country or territory in t...
In this era of face book and messenger, we often get up from sleep in the morning with the beautiful messages that we receive everyday. From flowers to quotations and from cartoons to jokes - what’s not there? Touch phone users like me in today’s digital Bangladesh have to rush to office...
With a nation celebrating thirteen festivities in twelve months, it is a mathematical reality that every month of the year means something special to the Bangladeshis and Bengalis as a whole. March of all is perhaps special, as there are several dates in March bearing extra significance to this nati...
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