Asian Age: Disasters such as earthquake, fire, flood, drought, cyclone and salinity are damaging lives, crops and infrastructures – causing a huge economic loss. Bangladesh counts 1.8 percent GDP loss every year due to natural disaster, said Md Quamrul Hasan, former Joint Secretary of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, while presenting the keynote at…
Desk Report: Unfit vehicles, unlicensed drivers and faulty roads are the main causes behind the road fatalities in the capital and elsewhere in the country, experts say, reports Daily Sun. They say underage drivers of public transport, mostly human haulers, are also posing a major threat to commuters’ safety. Most of the public transports plying…
Carli Pierson/Al jazeera On July 1, by electing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) as their new president, the Mexican people did not only speak, they shouted: “No more copycat politicians, no more failed promises, no more violence and no more Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)”. PRI candidates had dominated Mexican presidential elections since its founding in…
Jessica Valenti/Gulf News One of the many political ironies of our time is that feminism’s most powerful cultural moment has coincided with the rise of extreme misogyny. While women protest, run for office and embrace the movement for gender equality in record numbers, a generation of young, mostly white men are being radicalised into believing…
Salman Ahmad/Daily O, India Dil sey jo baat nikaltee hai asar rakhtee hai / Par nahin taqatey parvaaz magar rakhtee hai: Allama Iqbal (The whisper in your heart has strength / It may not have wings but it has the power to fly) When I was a teenager, I played club cricket at Lahore Gymkhana…
Leah Selim/UNICEF Here’s what it takes to make sure mothers have a supportive environment for early and continuous breastfeeding. Whether delivery takes place in a hut in a rural village or a hospital in a major city, putting newborns to the breast within the first hour after birth gives them the best chance to survive,…
Ken Hu/Project Syndicate: Every business in every industry could benefit from advances in digital connectivity, as the “Internet of Things” allows people to manage assets better and make more fully informed decisions. But to realize the potential of IoT, the world must first reimagine how networks are used. At a telecommunications conference hosted by Huawei…
Majed Al-Ansari/Middle East Monitor: Since the American president was elected, his many dreams were revealed. I say “dreams” because most of them are not based on a realistic vision of international politics. They are dreams that Trump believes his exceptional personality is capable of accomplishing, as he believes he is a “deal maker”. He had a…
Sajeda Farisa Kabir, Barrister, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Associate Director, BRAC Human Rights and Legal Aid Services/BRAC Living in Dhaka is a challenge, no matter who you are. Traffic is manic, there are motorcyclists cruising the footpaths and people are forced to walk on the streets. There are no designated bus lanes and no…
Shamsin Ahmed/BDnews24 On July 23, 2018, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, conferred on me the Citizenship of Bangladesh. It is indeed a great honour and during the ceremony, held at Ganabhaban, many things were going through my mind. Behind where we were standing and then sitting was a painting of the Father of…