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Origins of the Bengali Calendar

By A. Rahman :    Only a few weeks ago, Bangladesh celebrated Bengali New Year’s day (Bangla Noboborsho) with unprecedented razzmatazz – colourful festoons donned the apartments in high-rise buildings, rickshaws, and even lamp posts; women wearing bright yellow saris chanted Noboborsho-welcoming songs; girls with garlands in their hands walked the streets, as if to offer garlands to the exalted ...

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Mother of secularism: Pohela Boishaak will defeat all inequality:

By Piya Mayenin Pohela Boishaak, named after the Bishakha star is the first day of the Bengali calendar. The date of the Bengali year coincides with the mid-April in the western world. Although spring in UK, it is the onset of summer in Bangladesh and other places. Maybe the fine weather is partly why Britain has seen an ever growing Pohela ...

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Zahir Raihan: Recalling an Intellectual

Rajib Kanti Roy : Zahir Raihan: Recalling an Intellectual If we turn the pages of our glorious history, we come to realize that, a time frame of 19 years (from 1952 to 1971) was the most important period for us. During that time, as we faced economic discrimination by the West Pakistani rulers, we needed to develop a strong patriotic ...

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Achieving middle-income status

With the onset of globalisation, the international environment for trade, business and investment has become far more competitive than any time in the past and there is but no other option for Bangladesh to be transformed into a knowledge-driven economy to survive in this fiercely competitive environment, writes Shahabuddin Rajon and Harunur Rashid THE ruling Awami League’s political manifesto, ‘Vision ...

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Message on World Health Day : Safe and healthy diet for all

By M. A. JABBAR : The observance of World Health Day again reminds us that adulteration or contamination of food not only affects the life of each people irrespective of gender, age, or economic status but also pose great threat to the growing children and even womb of a mother. Child health specialists have disclosed the fact that the number ...

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Political power play and blindness for position allowinginjustice and causing damages to societies

By Fatema Miah : War crime and genocide issues are international matters because of the globalisation and international Justice System that was formed and agreed by United Nation post World War II.  During the 2nd world war according to the reports and records, it was about sixty to seventy million people were killed over the duration of six years’ war. During the ...

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 The middle east’s thirty years’ war?

By MARTIN ZAPFE : The modern Middle East – understood here as the region between Egypt in the west, Iran in the east and Turkey in the north – is still largely the result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire fol¬lowing World War I and the resulting order predefined by the Sykes-Picot ac¬cord of 1916. In it, the colonial ...

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PLAIN TRUTH Islamic Banking Is Welcome In Russia

Dr. Mozammel Haque : A Round Table discussion on the “Challenges and Prospects of Islamic Banking implementation in Russia” took place on 18 March 2015 at the Russian State Duma Committee on financial market. The discussion was attended by the representatives of the Central Bank of Russia and the Federation Council, executive authorities, large financial institutions and banks of Russia ...

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In one life: the memoirs of a third world civil servant

Kamal Siddiqui It was the time of the first martial law in the country, imposed  by General (later field marshal) Ayub Khan. I heard of some of the excesses of martial law functionaries in Narayanganj. Everyday abba would come home from office in a most dejected mood. The reason was that he was member of a martial law court headed ...

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BANGLDESH 1971 AND TODAYS WORLD

By Fatema Miah Isn’t the Current worlds unsettle status continuation of past political ignorance and result of harbouring injustice? Today world facing a very critical state of war between political legitimacy and uncompromising terrorism. War is ongoing between the modern democratical western policy versus malicious deadly terrorism from Middle East and Asian countries. When the Developed countries of west are ...

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