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Why should potato lag behind?
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on October 24, 2020
Merriam and Webster dictionary gives the definition of ‘mashed potato’ in the following words: ‘Potatoes that have been boiled and then made into a soft...
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Onion crisis: this year and the year before
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on September 17, 2020
AFTER a long one year, onions have again started making the headlines on front pages of newspapers and prime places in television bulletins and on...
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Decentralisation from centre to divisions
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on August 22, 2020
THERE is a comprehensive list of 233 countries in the world by population in the order of the highest to the lowest as reported by...
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New ideas, words in language and culture
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on July 23, 2020
THE way of life has greatly changed all over the world after the attack of the COVID-19 pandemic on human societies. As the novel coronavirus...
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A case study of 1720 Marseilles plague
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on July 02, 2020
THERE are resemblances between Plague and COVID-19. Both the diseases are highly contagious and life-threatening. Plague struck people with as much panic as novel coronavirus...
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Stringent enforcement of social distancing
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on June 11, 2020
The world has now become so connected that we can reach things existing in one part of the world from another in a short time...
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Official report falls short of actual scenario
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on May 19, 2020
THERE are two types of information related to new coronavirus infection and death cases that people are getting from the electronic and the print media....
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Phantoms of imperialistic racism
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020
RUDYARD Kipling’s poem ‘The White Man’s Burden’ was published in 1899. The poet tried to justify the American rule over the Philippine territory. According to...
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An alarm bell must be rung
by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on May 12, 2019
REPORTS published in a Bangla langauge daily newspaper in May 1–9 show that in these nine days, 41 people were killed by motorised vehicles plying...