GOOD POTENTIAL NOT HARVESTED WELL

Like India, Bangladesh also has a potential to be a good source of trained IT people. But after the IT education industry boom in the late n...

MY GOD IS YOUR GOD John Kearney, a student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has wrote an Op-Ed article urging that U...

EXPLOITING CHILDREN AS CAMEL JOCKEYS

I don't know much about camel racing, which is a traditional sport in the Arab countries. But I have heard plenty of it during recent ti...

MYSTERY DISEASE IN BANGLADESH

Recently I succumbed to strong headache and feverish conditions. A family member raised the question whether I had caught the mystery diseas...

WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY

The movement of marine transport vessels in Bangladesh waterways have become extremely slow and risky because of rising river beds from silt...

QUOTES OF THE DAY

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Mi...

TASLIMA NASRIN'S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Taslima's latest visit to Kolkata is creating much controversy. Take this and this for instance. She is always in the news. Despite th...

Grameen Bank Model helping people in Rhode Island, USA

Thrive, based on the international Grameen Bank from Bangladesh, brings tools from the village for Western women to gain financial independe...

TWO BANGLADESHES

There have been reactions from all quarters on the recent treatment of the minority Ahmadiyya sect in Bangladesh. The govt. has recently ban...

David Hookes in coma Australian cricket legend David Hookes clings to life in a coma after being knocked to the ground by a pub-bouncer in a...

QUOTE OF THE DAY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley - PLATO- 1792-1822, British Poet

BLOG ROUNDUP Its time for another Blog roundup. I will bring to you some interesting links found on various blogs. * FishBase is a global i...

A COLLECTION OF INDIAN DIAMONDS

The second annual Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) is set to be celebrated on 16th of January in New Delhi, India which is an attempt - and mor...

QUOTES OF THE DAY

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. PLATO- BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher An effeminate education weake...

NEED FOR A CHANGE IN EDUCATION SYSTEM

The Bangladeshi education system is divided into three different branches. These branches are: a) The English Medium, b) The Bengali Medium,...

INCREASING NUMBER OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN BANGLADESH

As the literacy rate is rising in Bangladesh, there is an ever-growing demand for institutions for higher education. Each year more and more...

ENGRISH FOR FUN

I often feel disgusted when I find a grammatical or spelling error in my post. As English is my second language I am trying to develop mysel...

WHAT FAME + BABBLEFISH CAN TURN YOU TO The result of the Asian Weblog award 2003 has been announced some days back. I did not notice it till...

THE AUTORICKSHAW SCANDAL

It was a bold move by the government to phase out 40,000 petrol-driven two-stroke three-wheelers to cut air pollution in Dhaka. The replacem...

BEWARE OF 2 WAY MIRROR Jivha tells that there is another threat to your privacy lurking behind the two way mirrors in places like female ch...

ARE YOU BLOGAHOLIC? Take this test and find out yourself. My Score is 64 out of 100, which means: You are a dedicated weblogger. You post f...

THE COMING OF AN AMERICAN EMPIRE

M Abdul Hafiz, former Director General of Bangladesh Institute of International Strategic Studies (BIIS) has written one article titled The ...

MORE GOOD NEWS

After many bad news (specially in the recent months) we have some good news at last. * Bangladesh foreign exchange reserves hit 8-year high ...

MORE TEA PER PERSON

In a recent report it is feared that as tea export earnings falls by 60pc, spiking local demand may turn Bangladesh into an importer. Tea w...

What did you learn in school today?

- a song by Pete Seeger What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? I learned that Washington never told a lie. I learned ...

CHILLY DAYS

Bangladesh is being hit by a cold wave across the country. At least 51 people, mostly children and the elderly, died in the last three days....

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