The land of beauty
January 14, 2012
by Mahfuzul Haque
Bangladesh, a South-Asian country wrapped up with great streaming rivers, is indeed a land of green and natural beauty. The land possesses the longest sea beach and is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger. Sundarbans is also the biggest mangrove forest in the world. The country, once part of undivided Bengal, is proud of her beautiful heritage and historical relics. Having a population of diverse religions along with tribal people, the land has rich culture and deep-rooted Read more
Tourism in Bangladesh: problems and prospects
January 14, 2012
by Ziaul Haque Howlader
Forty years has elapsed of Bangladesh’s tourism industry, yet we still see it in a nascent position in comparison to our neighbouring countries. Despite having all the potential to flourish, tourism in this country has been growing at a very slow pace. Bangladesh is not known as a tourist destination in the international tourism market. Only 3 lacs foreign tourists came to Bangladesh in 2010, of which more than 70 percent came for business and official purposes. The Read more
A brief life sketch of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
December 20, 2011
Obaidur Rahman
Born on 30th November, 1858, in the Rarikhal village of Bikrampur during the British era, which is now under the Munshiganj district of Bangladesh; Sir Bose was all together a physicist, biologist, botanist, archeologist and the author of the very first major work in the arena of Bangla science fiction, Niruddesher Kahin, written in the year 1896. But it was Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, who paved the grand way to the investigative research in the field of Radio and microwave Read more
Focusing on community strength for disaster preparedness
August 27, 2011
OP-ED
Focusing on community strength for disaster preparedness
We can mobilise all the communities at every corner of Bangladesh and we will discover that they all have the same potentials. They by themselves will find a way out of their problems, writes M Mizanur Rahman.
INVESTMENT in disaster preparedness can save five times as much as the money spent. But we do not do this only for the lack of awareness and we do not even explore the potential the people in our community have. We spend a huge amount Read more
Tourism prospect of Bangladesh
August 11, 2011
OP-ED
Tourism prospect of Bangladesh
If tourism is given due honour of industry and if both government and private organisations equally come forward for its development then it would open doors of immense possibility for us. At present, in our gross domestic product, the role of tourism is below one per cent. If it could be brought to five per cent then it would generate about five lakh direct and indirect employment, writes Ikteder Ahmed.
IN THE modern world tourism Read more
New policy to promote tourism industry
July 31, 2011
The Nepali government has brought new tourism policy to promote tourism industry, The Himalayan Times reports.
Addressing a press meeting, Minister for Tourism and Civial Aviation Hisila Yami said the ministry is planning a curriculum regarding tourism and the development of a separate Tourism University.
“European arrivals are declining due to the global financial crisis as they are investing in short Read more
A 19th-century Bengali scholar
July 27, 2011
By Monty Siddique for The News Today
Abu Saleh Mohammad Siddique, whose ancestral home was in Tetulia (Zamindar family), Satkhira, Bangladesh, studied English Language and English Literature at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He breathed his last in June 2007 and is buried in the Muslim section of the Greenford Cemetery in the London Borough of Ealing.
Going over the pages of history of over a hundred or so years ago reveals the names of a pool Read more
A modern day kobiraj
July 11, 2011
Jawad Hossain Nirjhor for The News Today
This article is about alternative medical practices that are adopted by poor people suffering from myriad illnesses, giving us a glimpse of the health conditions and sufferings of the underprivileged population in this country.
Afsar Ahamed lay near a corner of a street in Hatirpool, huddled in pain. He was gasping for breath desperately when I walked past him. Deeply suffocated, Jafar was trying to breath so hard that he was overstretching his body muscles to draw in Read more
Infectious diseases and vaccine sciences
July 11, 2011
What does the Programme do?
ICDDR,B is a vibrant institution with various experts actively engaged in research on infectious diseases. Microbiologists conduct fundamental research on the characteristics of pathogens. Immunologists study host defences, including potential vaccine candidates. Clinical scientists study the diseases caused by these infectious agents and evaluate optimum therapy in infected patients. Epidemiologists study the magnitude, distribution, risk factors, Read more
The story & esoteric significance of Rath Yatra
July 3, 2011
By Dr. Subrato Ghosh for The News Today
The story of the origin of Rath Yatra given by the Goswamis is practically unknown. As the gopis think and cry for Krishna, so He too was always immersed in their thought and would feel acute pangs of separation.
HISTORY OF RATHA-YATRA
Once Krishna was deeply thinking of Srimati Radharani. Feeling intolerable separation from Her, He fainted. Soon Narada Rishi and Uddhava came there and saw Krishna lying Read more
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