Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy Director General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Education is a basic need for mankind as all as human resource development. In the present world, there is an ample scope for education. There are different branches and components in the educational arena and they are: general education, scientific education and…
Hossen Sohel: A year after the flood of refugees, the camps have become functional towns, with shops, roadside restaurants and pharmacies. There are playgrounds for children and makeshift schools run by development agencies. More medical clinics are being built and many shanties have solar panels. Most people have at least some protection against monsoon landslides….
Krishnadev Calamur, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers global news/The Atlantic Members of the House of Representatives are raising concerns over the White House’s reinterpretation of a decade-old deal with Vietnam. Opposition is building against a Trump-administration plan to allow certain groups of protected Vietnamese immigrants to be deported, a day after The…
Anisur Rahman Tapan Bangabandhu Satelite-1 will be launched in April. Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will participate in the launching inauguration via video conference. Also, the whole ceremony will be telecasted on the tele & social media with subtitles of multiple languages. Also, Fireworks celebrations will be arranged by the government, all over the country….
Reuters: An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family this week saying she feared for her life arrived in Toronto’s international airport on Saturday after being granted asylum in Canada, where Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed her as a brave new Canadian. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun grabbed international attention this week after she barricaded herself in…
Md. Taqi Yasir The Age of Liberty after the death of Charles XII, that is the fall of the monarchy and turning that in a democracy in Sweden, can be the first example of experience women’s right to vote, but in a limited fashion. But in the pre modern era, abbesses or nuns of Christian…
PsychologyToday: For years, people have debated whether punishing children works, whether it corrects their behaviors without having any negative long-term consequences. Spanking is one such form of discipline. Does spanking children work? A paper published in the July/August issue of the American Psychologist concludes that physical punishment of children (including spanking) is ineffective, and more importantly,…
O-Japanoma A special report on the 2016 World Cosplay Summit (WCS) at South Korea had been published yesterday. WCS had 52 cosplayers from 26 countries, including four new participating countries (Philippines, Vietnam, Portugal, and Kuwait). From Japan, the team “Ryu-en” by Mahio and Mariko entered the competition. Mahio has 10 years of experience being a…
Sayeed Muhammad: The building that housed Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale restaurant in Gulshan, the scene of the infamous 2016 terrorist attack, has been deserted for nearly two years now. The house at Road 79 in Gulshan-2 is usually locked from outside and its owner does not stay there regularly, although it has been renovated…
Coconuts. Co: A Thai film dedicated to the Rohingya people won a top prize at the Venice Film Festival last weekend. “Manta Ray” (“Kraben Rahu” in Thai) won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film on Saturday night at the 75th Venice Film Festival, making it the first Thai movie to win the prestigious award. The…