Bangladesh

A report arrived to the Pressenza desk on a Blood Group Service Campaign in Rasulbugh Neighborhood, Azimpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 4, 2014. The report told that after restarting a series of social campaigns after a period of intermission, the…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has asserted that young people are indispensable in the United Nations efforts to “eradicate poverty, contain the spread of disease, combat climate change and achieve the Millennium Development Goals” and has called on UN member…

  Human Wrongs Watch DHAKA, 4 September 2014 (IRIN)* — Bangladesh announced this week that it will send back over 2,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, stoking concerns about the prospect of returning them to an increasingly dire situation. “Myanmar has…

With 140 million inhabitants, Bangladesh is one of the world’s most populated countries. It is also one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Cyclones, floods and droughts have long been part of the country’s history but…

The news was heartbreaking for me as the Bangladesh media outlets reported – Mahbubul Alam, former editor of The Independent, passed away in a hospital in Dhaka today (June 6, 2014) at the age of 78. The veteran journalist of Bangladesh…

Higher Education and Structural Unemployment: Discovering Possible Alternatives By Niamat Ullah Sarker* With globalization developed through capitalism, a new horizon has been seen in the world of trade and commerce. Under capitalism, people are free to work at jobs of…

The day is observed across the world every year since 1886, commemorating the supreme sacrifices of workers in the United States to establish the rights of eight-hour working day and with renewed pledge to uphold the rights of working class.…

We belong to an age where global distances are decreasing rapidly. To be an active part of the global village, co-operation through exchanging our various diversities is a continuous necessity. Diversities exist at all levels of life, and in every…

Opening inaugural ceremony of the  International Cricket Council’s 2014 ICC T20 World Cup spawned a rumbling reaction among the Bangladeshi masses that showed up on 13th March, 2014 at Bangabandhu National Stadium. Promoting the event as a BCB (Bangladesh Cricket…

Bangladesh’s economy is characterized by a market economy where decisions regarding investment, production, distribution and consumption are based on supply and demand – apparently! In this system, prices of goods and services are mostly determined in a free price system;…