Brac.net: While many employers see it as a revolutionary way to drive organisational growth, others tend to be more skeptical about the ultimate outcome. Is it worth taking the time and effort? Does it make sense to burden employees to do things that are not necessarily part of their job description? Google is one such…
DOT Desk: Sanzida’s father was suffering from cardiac problems. When their family admitted him to a hospital in Bangalore in India, he was diagnosed with kidney problems as well. The vastly increased medical expenses have dealt a stunning blow to the Master’s student at Rajshahi University and her family. As Sanzida continued to fret over…
Afsan Chowdhury/Southasian monitor.com “India is such a big country and economy, it should not worry about OBOR. Rather, it can also join so that all the countries can benefit economically,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently said in an interview to CNN-News18 television channel. Mentioning “Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC)”, an agreement to establish connectivity, Hasina…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Wage Earners’ Welfare Board has decided to conduct mass hearing of the migrant workers on the first Wednesday of every month, reports The Daily Star. The hearing will be held at the office of the director general of the Wage Earners’ Welfare Board on Prabashi Kallyan Bhaban at Old Elephant…
DOT Desk: Pragati Publishers launched two pop-up books based on horror stories by famous Indian Bengali writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay at a programme held at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Sunday, reports The New Age BD. The books namely Nishi Kobrej and Kogramer Madhu Pandit have been published to encourage reading habits in children, said speakers at…
Jamilah Amburo/ Seven Billion Today Elated that a Duke University Professor has been removed from her post after she sent an e-mail to students demanding that they speak English and saying that speaking Chinese could lead to serious consequences.As a foreign person living in America, I am elated to hear that this woman has been…
Mark Ellison/ The Conversation, Australia The first thing to think about is that at one time there was no spoken language.We’re confident language as we know it did not exist around 6 million years ago because our ancestors then were also the ancestors of chimpanzees, who do not have language.And our best guess (from this…
Anadolu Agency: A video of an anti-polio worker in Pakistan walking through waist-deep snow to administer vaccines to children is doing the rounds on social media gathering praise from humanitarian groups. World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he admired the efforts of Pakistani workers fighting against the crippling polio virus. “There…
Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom/ Project Syndicate British Prime Minister Theresa May’s party is divided, her cabinet is split, and perhaps half its members are jostling to succeed her. To ensure an orderly withdrawal from the European Union, her government has only one option. It is…
Wion News: The average temperature rise in the northern India state of Jammu and Kashmir has far surpassed the world average, which has got experts extremely worried. As against a global increase of 0.8 to 0.9 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years, temperatures in Jammu and Kashmir have risen by an average of 1.2…