Tom Plate :Try it, you might like it: A sense of proportion. Avoid the extreme cry of apocalypse now – or at least, of apocalypse soon. Stretch your intellectual and historical horizons to appreciate Japan as an expanse of more than just a few decades, or of even just a few centuries. It is a culture and a people that will endure.Here are some obvious points. Japan is not about to tip over and fall into the Sea of Japan,...
Robert J. Samuelson :We are awash in retrospectives of the “War on Poverty,” launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon B. Johnson. A furious debate has developed between those (mostly liberals) who consider the war an important, if incomplete, triumph and those (mostly conservatives) who judge it a wasteful defeat. In reality, we both won and lost the war on poverty. This is an ambiguous truth that our acrimonious political culture has trouble accepting.We won in the sense that...
Hard to believeI am feeling very curious about the mental state of the members of the newly formed government. How are they adjusting to their roles of Ministers and MPs, which they became without the mandate of the people, of whom 90% wanted the election to be held under CTG and in the one sided election only 5% vote was cast. People do not mean anything to them, with disdain to their demand and hope, the government went ahead saying...
Asha Iyer Kumar :Today’s children are a curious lot – hard to please, keen on competition, easily pestered and fabulously finicky. The shortest route to getting on their nerves is to begin a session with “When we were children, we…” They have no interest in knowing about those ‘boring’, ‘gadget-less’ stints in your life, and trying to make them see the difference between our sweet, magical growing-up years and the stretched-to-the-seam childhood of theirs is an attempt in vain.Glaring gaps...
Rahul Singh :I HAVE a “fix” I cannot do without. In fact, I have had it since I started working as a journalist some half a century ago. No, it has nothing to do with alcohol, drugs or tobacco. It is simply the need to read a large number of newspapers and magazines first thing in the morning, with my breakfast. And then, later, to watch the news channels to find out their comments on the latest political and economic...
Mohammad Mosaddek Hossain :Meeting the challenges and opportunities for proper globalization process between the developing and developed countries, this ultimately requires consideration of how to put data analysis and management on the agenda of socio-economic and human development related globalization approach. In this regard, the following questions be addressed: How has globalization research been conceptualized in the countries? How have globalization approach linkages between developed and developing countries? How has the idea of intra-national research evolved? How has an intranational...
NEWS reports said the country’s top business leaders have urged the government to ensure socio-political stability to the nation to get the business and economic activities back on the track. At their first meeting with the newly appointed Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed at a city hotel Tuesday they presented a really dismal picture of the domestic business sector and their manifold problems which severely disrupted export shipments. They reportedly told the Minister that the prolonged blockades and shutdowns of the...
MOHAMMAD Nasim, the new Health Minister has cancelled the primary approval of 12 private medical colleges, claiming ‘lapses’ in the approval process as the main cause to prompt their cancellation. While meeting the functionaries of the Bangladesh Health Reporters’ Forum at his office, the Minister said that he had decided to review the process in view of the gross irregularities in the approval process and shortcomings to fulfil the conditions.We know that the former health minister AFM Ruhal Haque had...
Frank-Jürgen Richter :LET’S START off with a simple fact. The fact is so simple, yet so profound that though anyone reading this certainly already knows it, it warrants repeating: In the not-so-far future, we are going to run out of fossil fuels. Take a second to think about what that really means. There are more than one billion cars worldwide, not to mention the countless industries, factories and cities, which rely on fossil fuels for power. When the oil runs...
M.A. Jabbar :For the above title of my article, the respected readers perhaps may guess of whom I am going to write about. This is about reverened national professor of the soil Dr Nurul Islam who left us one year back, who in his life time could reach peak of success by his excellent talents, perseverance and hard struggle throughout his life and have dimensional and singnificant countribution for the country and its people and will be remembered by all...
Deepti Mahajan Mittal :In the past, the country was listed amongst those with a high carbon and ecological footprints. But as the government seeks to take strides in renewable energy (RE) innovation and resource conservation, the country is also giving due attention to enhancing its global image. Public diplomacy which involves engaging and influencing international public audiences, including even local populations, is a strategic tool that can create a conducive environment for the pursuit of strategic political and socio-economic objectives....
THE three-day ‘Biswa Ijtema’ the second largest congregation of the Muslims, which is only next to the Hajj in Mecca begins at Tongi, in the outskirts of the city on the banks of the Turag river from today after Juma prayers. It will be held in two phases-the first from January 24 to 26 to end in the wrapping up of prayers on Sunday. The second phase will begin on January 31 to end in February 2. The congregation is...