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We require corona resilient towns and villages

Being consistent with World Health Organization and also based on Government guidelines, THP (Trillium Health Partners) volunteers of the Hunger Project in Bangladesh has recently shown their glaring success in controlling the corona pandemic in some 1200 selected villages in different regions of Ba...

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Tackling the future waves of Covid in Bangladesh

C ovid-19 patient was first detected in Bangladesh on 8 March 2020 and since then, we have all success and mistakes in facing two past waves based on which we may now take some precautionary measures for the third wave in the country. At this stage of second phase, Bangladesh has entered into a grim...

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Magnificent celebrations of great two occasions

We have just completed two magnificent ceremonial observances of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the celebration of the golden jubilee of our independence. Bangladesh remained blazed with these lively performances for ten days during March 2021, when globally the fame of...

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Bangabandhu brought us dignity and internationalism

Bangabandhu declared the independence of Bangladesh on 26th March 1971 with a formal announcement which came on the air prior to his arrest by brutal Pakistan army. But mere announcement is not the whole credibility of him; rather, his creation of Bangladesh has to be judged entirely by Mujib’...

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Population problem in Bangladesh and futuristic cautions

(Continued from last day's section)It is predicted that in the rural areas of our country, the family size is still 6.1 on an average, and in the slum areas it might be even more than this number. Women in our country are shy of buying contraceptives from the local pharmacy and men often are rel...

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Population problem in Bangladesh and futuristic cautions

Bangladesh is an overpopulated country having a total of 165 million people living in a small tiny land of 147,570 sq km, with an impenetrable density of 1,116 persons living in per square kilometer which is very much alarming for its sustainable survival in terms of its per capita resource allocati...

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Zoning for vulnerable areas in Dhaka

Consistently, following a similar trend of New York and other big cities of Europe, Dhaka, where the majority of the COVID-19 victims in Bangladesh lives, is also witnessing an indistinguishable pattern of contamination. Among the total 84,379 infectors in the country until June 13 of this year...

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Covid-19 and humanity

(Continued from last day’s section)If we look at the geo-structural situation of Bangladesh, we find that Bangladesh is an extremely overpopulated country having a total population of 165 million people living in a small tiny land of 147,570 sq km, with an abnormal density of 1,116 people livi...

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Covid-19 and humanity

Myanmar is a close neighbor of Bangladesh having an adjacent boarder of 271 kilometers where the Rohingyas of Arakan had long been living there since many centuries past. While depicting the geopolitical history of Arakan, it becomes evident that it had not always been the part of Myanmar; rath...

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Health problems of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia

Health is a revealing indicator for socio-cultural adaptability and work efficiency of the migrant workers as it is very much related to their physical fitness. Bangladeshi migrants working in factories, construction sites and other hazardous work locations in Malaysia and elsewhere in the world are...