Farmers kick-start a freshwater machine
Water is everywhere in and around Bangladesh, yet the lack of freshwater is one of its most pressing concerns.
No hope for the new poor
Money is not a problem, and the government too intends to support the poor in their dire need. What’s the problem then? The government does not know who to help out!
Opinion: Govt shoots a messenger
She wasn’t handcuffed. Yet, she was indeed guarded by hordes of police personnel all the time: from custody to court. Following an overnight stay in custody, she was taken to court with a “guard of dishonour” and then hauled on to a prison van to jail on Tuesday.
Opinion: Hiss or boom?
Steam goes off, lid in the handle slides down to be in airtight mode, and pressure starts to mount again within the sealed pot before the next hiss.
Hiss or boom?
Steam goes off, lid in the handle slides down to be in airtight mode, and pressure starts to mount again within the sealed pot before the next hiss. At the end of a few hissings, foods are cooked faster than time, with lesser energy burnt. A simple knowledge about "how to manage pressure" led to the invention of pressure cooker by French physicist Denis Papin way back in 1679.
Fix the error, not the mirror
Just imagine a day without a mirror. You’re getting ready for work, not knowing how you look. Your car, without rear-view mirrors, is on the busy road to office, negotiating the peak hour traffic.
Fix the error, not the mirror
The reflections in the controlled media are just like visual distortions to people, who always turn to free media for authentic information. A free media is after all the mirror they need. And, press freedom, not the ‘praise freedom’, is what turns a media into that mirror.
‘Great Wall’ for free media falls
Humility is the rarity that goes sorely missing in people with power. Among hordes of influential people in our society, only a few stand apart as rarity, a light of hope for the society against show of arrogance. With the passing of Latifur Rahman, a light of rarity went out for good.
Some are more equal to govt
Protected and unprotected: an oblique line of the government’s preference separated the two.
All aren’t equal to government
Protected and unprotected: an oblique line of the government’s preference separated the two.
Eid is here, not the smile
Eid is here, yet a sense of huge emptiness engulfs each of us. Happiness, where has it gone?
Giving is contagion’s call to the affluent
A private foundation of Suhana and Anis Ahmed sends out this message to society’s all-haves while taking some burdens off the shoulders of no-haves during an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that Bangladesh has ever faced due to coronavirus pandemic.
Friend in need is a friend indeed
About 13,000 drivers of CNG-run three-wheelers in the country are among this vulnerable group. They have mostly remained out of the radar of aid. The government’s assistance or wealthy people’s financial help have hardly reached them. Having exhausted meagre savings and loans from relatives, they’re bracing themselves for the seemingly inevitable.
Launch in Tokyo, cheers in Dhaka
Bangladesh got a little break from the doom and gloom of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday when Hitachi in Tokyo launched its made-in-Bangladesh IoT application-based airCloud Pro device, which manages large cooling and heating systems remotely.
Johnson Controls – Hitachi Air Conditioning launches IoT product using Bangladeshi software know-how
Bangladesh got a little break from the doom and gloom of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday when Johnson Controls – Hitachi Air Conditioning in Tokyo launched its made-in-Bangladesh IoT application-based airCloud Pro device, which manages large cooling and heating systems remotely.
Heartbreaks; hope for herd immunity
“Herd immunity” is the ultimate answer to any pandemic, and Bangladesh, by no choice of its own, is rushing towards it to keep coronavirus at bay.
You die, we live!
Discount, deferred payment, auction or cancellation! Options are being dished out by the buyers and importers of Bangladeshi garments to its makers. As Europe stutters to reopen after the coronavirus pandemic, global apparel businesses are making up their loss with money of manufacturers.
Snapshots of life: April is cruel, May may be cruelest
April in Dhaka is not what we know of. The month behaves almost like spring now.
Ghosts around machines?
Unlike any polls in the past, eligible city dwellers yesterday were free to exercise their right to vote through machine, for the first time, at all centres across Dhaka.
Thumbs we all are sucking on!
“Casino” in Bangladesh! Not one or two, 60 in total are operating right in Dhaka city. It’s no makeshift, behind-the-shanty mundane affair. Inside, those “casinos” are as real and as glittering as in Las Vegas. All were there: gambling machine, liquor, and swirling of no less than 120 crore taka every night.
Change Maker: Eyes in distress, eyes of hope
Ehsan Hoque was lucky not to be blind for life, after his birth in 1964. Born with congenital cataracts, an optical disorder responsible for child blindness, he could survive with a limited eyesight. However, unlike most other victims of child blindness because of infections or nutritional deficiencies in pregnancies, his story was to unfold completely differently over the next five decades. His eyes in distress would eventually transform him into an angel parent of children in distress.
Empty yet not empty!
Empty! Emptiness, everywhere across Dhaka North yesterday. Empty voting centre, empty polling booth, empty ballot box and empty look in the faces of polling officials. As if the word empty personified the city elections of yesterday, the day when over 30 lakh voters were supposed to elect the mayor of their region.
How dare you hit my child!
How dare you hit my children! These are the children whom we protect every single moment from every single harm. We leave nothing to chances as far as their security is concerned. Our children on the streets have come under attack, and we, the parents, have every right to ask who has given them the right to touch our children.
Ball is now in govt's court
Road-wise, Bangladesh remained a student republic for the last seven days. It's about time it went back to what it is: a people's republic.
Fixing all ills by beating?
We never take one unique medicine for all illness. Do we? Never. Because it invariably would compound the illness and wreak havoc on the delicate human body, causing death even.
Luck plays its part
Lady Luck plays a small but significant role in a World Cup that runs over a month.
Fifa gains in game of losers
Here comes a game that no one wants to be involved in. What glory can two losers achieve from a third-place deciding game? For teams, nothing but the World Cup matters. It's just cruel to ask one of the losing semifinalists to lose again.
It's not coming home
Sorry, England! It's not the World Cup, but the footballers who are coming home.
Apology to beautiful football
France won the match, but not the hearts. The first semifinal between the two best sides of the World Cup failed to live up to its Battle Royale billing. It was a good match but could have been great had France not played negative football. There was no reason for France to play defensively.
Lots of fights within a fight
France, Belgium face off. The two best teams of this World Cup lock horns tonight. A dream match that has every potential to live up to its billing as a Battle Royale.
Respect Russia
Heartbreak for hosts, but Russians were heroes. Ranked 70th in the world and playing in this World Cup by virtue of being the host nation, Russia were taken on neither seriously nor respectfully by rivals and pundits. But what a gallant run the elderly Russian players had in this tournament.
Lady Luck was not with Brazil
What a match it was Friday midnight! A cracker of a contest that was fought hard till the end.
Winner not on the field
Four years ago, Brazil were hit by a tragedy bigger than a tsunami. A 7-1 thrashing by Germany was beyond the wildest imagination of the proud football nation.
Tite's pack of wolves ready
It's been a strange World Cup so far in Russia: smiles for also-rans and tears for big guns.
Portugal missed a Eusebio
It was a Black Saturday that saw the fall of the two most glittering stars of world football.
Messi remains Club King
With hands on hips, eyes bleary and lips quivering, he looks on after losing another crunch match.
Who’s heading home?
It’s now crunch time, as the World Cup in Russia reaches the knockout round. For fans, tonight holds the most crucial hours of tournament, when two of the four leading football nations -- Argentina or France and Portugal or Uruguay -- will head home with broken hearts.
Mood vs pressure
The World Cup's tryst with Telstar 18 came to an end Thursday night. The high-tech official football, made by Adidas, proved to be quite exciting as it produced goals in all but one of the 44 matches played with it.
Writing was on the wall
Heartbroken and humiliated, Germany will be haunted by South Korea for years.
June 11, 2020
All aren’t equal to government
Protected and unprotected: an oblique line of the government’s preference separated the two.
May 25, 2020
Eid is here, not the smile
Eid is here, yet a sense of huge emptiness engulfs each of us. Happiness, where has it gone?
May 24, 2020
Giving is contagion’s call to the affluent
A private foundation of Suhana and Anis Ahmed sends out this message to society’s all-haves while taking some burdens off the shoulders of no-haves during an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that Bangladesh has ever faced due to coronavirus pandemic.
May 22, 2020
Friend in need is a friend indeed
About 13,000 drivers of CNG-run three-wheelers in the country are among this vulnerable group. They have mostly remained out of the radar of aid. The government’s assistance or wealthy people’s financial help have hardly reached them. Having exhausted meagre savings and loans from relatives, they’re bracing themselves for the seemingly inevitable.
May 17, 2020
Launch in Tokyo, cheers in Dhaka
Bangladesh got a little break from the doom and gloom of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday when Hitachi in Tokyo launched its made-in-Bangladesh IoT application-based airCloud Pro device, which manages large cooling and heating systems remotely.
May 16, 2020
Johnson Controls – Hitachi Air Conditioning launches IoT product using Bangladeshi software know-how
Bangladesh got a little break from the doom and gloom of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday when Johnson Controls – Hitachi Air Conditioning in Tokyo launched its made-in-Bangladesh IoT application-based airCloud Pro device, which manages large cooling and heating systems remotely.
May 13, 2020
Heartbreaks; hope for herd immunity
“Herd immunity” is the ultimate answer to any pandemic, and Bangladesh, by no choice of its own, is rushing towards it to keep coronavirus at bay.
May 3, 2020
You die, we live!
Discount, deferred payment, auction or cancellation! Options are being dished out by the buyers and importers of Bangladeshi garments to its makers. As Europe stutters to reopen after the coronavirus pandemic, global apparel businesses are making up their loss with money of manufacturers.
April 25, 2020
Snapshots of life: April is cruel, May may be cruelest
April in Dhaka is not what we know of. The month behaves almost like spring now.
February 2, 2020
Ghosts around machines?
Unlike any polls in the past, eligible city dwellers yesterday were free to exercise their right to vote through machine, for the first time, at all centres across Dhaka.
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