Installed on the boundary wall of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) located at the ever-busy Gulshan-Mohakhali Link road, the illuminating electric signboard reads "Healthcare will leap several steps forward in the Mujib Year". Sadly, the very good initiative of the government has turned out to be nothing but mere propaganda by the health... Continue Reading →
Understanding the Digital Security Act Bidyanondo Foundation has become quite a household name in recent days. Their dedicated service to humanity in these difficult times of Covid-19 has brought them under the limelight. But the organisation and its founding chairman have also become the target of vicious hate crime and racist attacks in social media.... Continue Reading →
Chandana, a domestic help who works on an ad-hoc basis, rings my mother for assistance of any kind to run her five-member family. She lives in Korail slum but never received any kind of relief since the lockdown to contain Covid-19 began in Dhaka. In a functioning market, cash transfer is likely to be the... Continue Reading →
Every state in the world, whether democratic or authoritarian, has some guiding principles to run its affairs -- we call it a constitution. To make it effective, these guiding principles are backed by certain laws, rules, procedures, institutions, and people who lead them. Likewise, Bangladesh has her constitution of 1972. Article 15 of the constitution... Continue Reading →
It is already known that the world will need to inject USD 7 trillion (and rising) into the economy to recover from the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic. This indicates that a lot of changes are perhaps in the cards in the coming years across the globe. The great depression of 1930 that resulted from... Continue Reading →
Global trade is being disrupted by the tax disputes over technology giants who mostly operate from Silicon Valley. According to 2019 statistics by Statista.com, six out of the 10 largest companies in the world by market value were technology companies. No wonder that technology giants like YouTube, Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba are causing disruption to... Continue Reading →
There is little doubt that technology will drive everything in the coming days. The developed world is witnessing an artificial intelligence-driven transformation of technology, earlier than us—but we are also embracing it. Technology and technological innovation such as artificial intelligence in particular, is so invincible that tech giants are taking over everything. They just create... Continue Reading →
Shamsul Alam (55) is a tea stall worker and heads a family of 7 members. He entirely depends on tube well water for drinking purpose. His wife, daughter and daughter in law collect drinking water from a nearby tube well and drink it directly. He considers this safe. He has no understanding of whether this... Continue Reading →
The beauty of democracy is that it provides space to anyone; irrespective of the social or economic status of a person they can assume power and with it can do an enormous number of good things that can benefit the society as a whole. But it has a dark side as well: it allows anyone,... Continue Reading →
The world at present is encountering remarkable challenges in promoting governance, democracy, transparency, press freedom and economic development. For sustainable development, good governance is a must for any nation. Media is an important source of information and it plays a critically important role in shaping a healthy democracy and bolster good governance. But there is... Continue Reading →
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