Miscellany

Mohsin Siddique This small book, Amar Shomajtantra by A R Khan, has been well received in Bangladesh, but one cannot be sure what it indicates. Is it a sign of some dormant desire for socialism, some hope that despite the tragic demise of socialism in the USSR, the East European Socialist Block, and privatization in […]

Engr. S. A. Mansoor At the fag end of my life now on mid eighties; these lines sketch out various events and stages of my life, that I can recall through the passage of time, across my fairly eventful life! Penned in the following paragraphs, are some images of events that have remained embedded in […]

Md. Nazrul Islam Khan There subsist two basic collective organs in the management of the company namely members and board of directors. The board is responsible to perform their fiduciary duties within the ambit of Article of Association of the company. In General Meeting, on the other hand, the members participate in decision making and […]

Rashme Sehgal [The Wire.in] India was ranked the most dangerous country in the world for women in 2018 by the Thompson Reuters Foundation poll.If events over the last few weeks are anything to go by, India has become a killer country for the girl child – who is being raped and murdered across Uttar Pradesh […]

Sazedul Islam Dhaka: A dialogue with journalists to promote women and child friendly reporting was held at Segun Restaurant at Segun Bagicha in the capital recently. The dialogue recommended for a number of matters, including maintaining women and child friendly attitude, to be taken into consideration while presenting news and views in the mass media. […]

Nava Thakuria in Guwahati Dharamshala: Indian supporters for a free Tibet have urged the Union government in New Delhi to confer Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian honour, on the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama for his immense contributions in creating goodwill for India in the last six decades. In a declaration, adopted in the […]

Syed Anwarul Haque Fijians are hospitable and friendly people.. My first visit to Fiji Islands was in 1981 for a week, which was followed by another visit to Fiji in 1982 for of two years. In 1982, I went to Fiji to work as an expatriate officer under the Ministry of Primary Industries as an […]

Bodies’ die, but spirits are immortal Sir Frank Peters It’s men like Mahbubul Alam who give honour and respectability to the nation in which they are born. It’s people like Mahbubul Alam who bring respect, honour and admiration to the press corps. Usually ethical people achieve this status without any deliberate design or master plan. […]

Special Correspondent About 97 per cent of people in Bangladesh are at the risk of non-communicable diseases as most of the metabolic and behavioural risk factors for such diseases are highly prevalent in Bangladeshis, found a new survey report released on Wednesday. The risk factors considered in the survey included lack of healthy diets and […]

Syed Badrul Haque On 16 May 2016 while I was surfing the TV channels my eyes suddenly got stuck to the scroll: ‘Senior journalist Sadeq Khan is no more’. I was stunned beyond belief. The burden of trauma was overwhelming; I was seized by nostalgic evocation, for how long I didn’t know before I could […]