The coordination conundrum

A section of the Kutupalong-Balukhali camp is visibly different from most other parts of the camps. The hill is dotted with shacks in close proximity as usual, but which have sturdy leakproof roofs and extra tarpaulin sheets covering the walls to protect from the monsoon rains.
1 September 2018

The business of survival

In a desperate need for cash, food, and daily necessities, Rohingya refugees are selling relief items to local traders
1 September 2018

Ghost ship in Myanmar waters was heading to Bangladeshi ship-breaking yard

A stranded vessel empty of crew and goods that was found in Myanmar's waters this week was being towed by a ship with 13 Indonesian nationals for a ship-breaking factory in Bangladesh before it became unmoored, the Myanmar Navy says.
1 September 2018

Apple to unveil new iPhones at September 12 event

Speculation includes talk that Apple introduce three new iPhone models, infusing some with features from a premium iPhone X that debuted last year with a $1,000 price tag.
31 August 2018

Pregnant Venezuelan women going to Brazil to give birth

Expecting Venezuelan women are leaving their country due to lack of prenatal care, medicine and diapers and giving birth across the border in Brazil, where three Venezuelan babies are born every day.
22 August 2018

Lessons on morality

Morality is a heavily loaded contentious topic. We can explore it carefully to examine its benefits and drawbacks at individual, community or social level.
20 August 2018

Procedures in Gastrointestinal and Colorectal cancer

Before discussing Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Cancer, can we discuss anal fistulas, fissures, and haemorrhoids? More to the point, are these preventable?
20 August 2018

Rubbish-collecting crows a star attraction at French theme park

Visitors to a theme park in western France this week have a new attraction to enjoy: six crows that have been specially trained to pick up cigarette ends and rubbish.
17 August 2018

About Town

Paper craft Workshop: Creatures big and small
16 August 2018

Me against the world

I tread this beaten path on my own
16 August 2018

How Assam’s citizenship test disowns its own people

Sitting inside her hut in Alipur char in lower Assam, India, 37-year-old Delowara Begum tries to explain where she is from. “I have always lived here,” she says in a dialect of Bangla. “Sometimes there, a few kilometres away, when the river floods and my hut sinks. But never too far from here.”
16 August 2018

MAILBOX

A few months ago, we had observed that traffic police were checking and tracing cars driving from the opposite direction on VIP road. Government high-ups and other VIPs were found to be responsible for violating traffic laws on a whim. The on-going traffic week is also intended to check whether vehicles have relevant papers.
16 August 2018

6yr 'driver' lands parents in China police station

A couple from central China who shared a video of their six-year-old daughter driving the family car on a public road ended up being given a dressing down by the police, local media reports.
15 August 2018

Paris residents peeved at very public eco-friendly urinals

A new set of eco-friendly but completely exposed urinals deployed on the streets of Paris provokes uproar from locals.
14 August 2018

Bride doesn't let flood get in the way of her wedding

A beaming bride defiantly marching up a flooded church aisle in the Philippines win hearts as the country suffers a fresh bout of monsoonal rains.
14 August 2018

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

July 29 was just another mundane Sunday, and one of us crossed the intersection of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College at around 10 am, on the way to work.
9 August 2018

Teen protest movement demanding safe roads: Their allies, adversaries, and others

The last time I heard of a student protest movement with secondary school children was in 2011. Secondary school children had joined university students in Chile to denounce their neoliberal education system that had commodified education, expanding social and income inequality between the rich and the poor.
9 August 2018

The rise and silencing of a mass student movement

It all started with a mad race. Two buses from Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan were racing towards a stop near the Armed Forces Medical College in Kurmitola. It was peak hour. The students were in a rush to get home and both buses wanted to cash in on that. They were racing on the Mirpur to Airport flyover.
9 August 2018

Bruised and battered

18-year-old Faisal Mahmud, a student of class XII, was injured when a truck ran over him near Shanir Akhra on August 1, while he and his friends were checking the licences of vehicles on that road.
9 August 2018

MAILBOX

From deconstruction's point of view, binary oppositions had played a very important role to form the western ideologies and most importantly the androcentric attitude had, and still has, its admirers.
9 August 2018