Opinion

US Senator Kennedy in Bangladesh

American Senator Mr. Edward Kennedy came to Bangladesh on 14 February 1972 on a two-day visit. Senator Kennedy had, by that time, become a very popular personality to the people

Climate Justice: Fight for Sustainability

Bappy Rahman: Justice about climate change is related to the uneven distribution of climate change exposure, vulnerability and capacity. T. S. Munk (2018) observed that justice is generally divided into

Addressing Barriers to Scaling up Climate Finance

climate,climate finance,United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,UNFCCC Bangladesh is a highly climate-vulnerable country in the world because of its disadvantageous geographic location, that is, this country has a sizeable

Students Need 21st-century Skills to Be Glocal Citizens

According to the renowned sociologist and theorist of globalization Roland Robertson, today only the glocal exists. We are neither global nor local any more. The glocal is the outcome of

Politics of Winning and Losing Elections

The peaceful election in Dhaka South and North City Corporations is surely a positive development in the electoral environment of the country. From the very onset of the electoral process

History of Irrigation Development in Bangladesh

It is assumed that agriculture in the Indian subcontinent started nine thousand years ago when people learned the technique of growing crops and domesticating wild animals. Many years later, they

New muscular militarism in a ‘dangerous world’

Marijn Hoijtink and Hanna Muehlenhoff: ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2019, incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, along with her team of nominees for commissioners, presented her ambitions for the

Johnson’s Brexit fantasies

Kenneth Surin: IMMEDIATELY after his general election victory, BoJo jetted to the private Caribbean island of Mustique with his latest mistress. Sequestered in a rental villa that cost $26,000 a