FMM Hossain When your clock-hands join palms together, it is 31st December midnight. The Gregorian calendar trumpets the beginning of the 2012 ledgers.[...]
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December 4th, 2011 - 4:44 am § in Cover Story
Dhaka’s History Waiting to be Divided
Md. Mahbub oshairhat is the 111th municipality of Bangladesh but the first municipality was undoubtedly Dhaka. Today’s tremendously commercial, industrial, financial, sporting and cultural Dhaka was not the same in 400 years back. Politically very powerful, the capital city, the administrative hea[...]
October 22nd, 2011 - 10:40 pm § in Cover Story
Palestine Statehood: Cause of Humanity
Wahidul Islam Who hasn’t heard of cerebral celebrity Noam Chomsky, orientalist Edward Said or Arabic pop singer Latifa and Tony Blair’s sister in law Lauren Booth? They are none but a handful few who were deprived of the Western privileges they could have enjoyed. It happened not because all of [...]
August 20th, 2011 - 11:45 pm § in Cover Story
Linking Wealth, Waste and Want
Ifrith Islam Those who try to portray the planet as incapable of providing 18 thousand species and their subspecies including 7 billion human must have some ill motives. They do so apparently to make the poor people believe that the wealthy section is not responsible for their starvation and poverty[...]
June 6th, 2011 - 11:36 pm § in Cover Story
Hats off to Hygiene Heavyweights
Wahidul Islam That hygiene is very important for both the rational and irrational creatures is known to all. For the irrational creature the act of cleaning its body is a natural process but the rational creature has to exert effort to attain it. Nature is beautiful and law abiding, so are the anima[...]
May 1st, 2011 - 12:05 am § in Cover Story
A story of a sleepless night
Sakib Shahriar Have you ever thought that what is the most unending love in this world? Which is the very couple, always love and flow parallel in their way of life but never and ever can cross each other? Can’t you answer? Ok the most unending love is the love between two slippers of a [...][...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:05 am § in Cover Story
Jeopardized Japan: Going Nuclear or Not
Abu Muaj The world, which sees over 100 crore people everyday going to bed hungry, is itself greatly hungry. The planets hunger is not for food stuff what human lives on. It is hungry rather for power and energy. One billion people starve not because they dont produce any services or goods but f[...]
March 1st, 2011 - 12:05 am § in Cover Story
Youths rise, empires fall
Wahidul Islam History repeats itself. It usually repeats in a span of 100 hundred years. Old empires fall and new empires rise with the passage of time, be it 100 or 25 years. Did you remember when theOttoman Empire collapsed with the fall of Turkish caliph Muhtasim Billah in 1924 AD. The whole Arab[...]
February 1st, 2011 - 12:03 am § in Cover Story
Let limbs speak
Wahidul Islam Have you ever banged your fist on door or table angrily? Can a newborn speak anything but cry out in discomfort when it is taken out of the womb? Didn’t our National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam went speechless and had to communicate for 30 years? Have you ever visualized of being dumb? Or[...]
January 4th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in Cover Story
The Cyber Dreamers
Haidar Saif Perhaps for the first time the whole world has truly felt its strength- what the internet can do. May be it has been done by a group of people but the gallons of data has been spread through this widely threaded nets- internet. The mightier countries have never felt such a strong tremor [...]