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Can Nobel Peace Prizes bring peace to South Asia?

The winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize are Malala Yousafzai, the admirable young (17) Pakistani Muslim girl who has most courageously defended the right of girls to education, and Kailash Satyarthi, the Indian Hindu who has led a movement for some 35 years campaigning against child slavery in India. malala-kailash-satyarthiThis brings to four the number of Nobel Peace Prize winners emanating from South Asia. The other two are Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma/Myanmar, 1991) and Muhammad Yunus, founder and philosophe...

How to rob a bank in Bangladesh  

In Bangladesh, we sometimes play We Also Have. This is a parlor game in which we can say, with pride, that we now have the things that could previously be found only in other countries. In the 1990s, it was satellite television (we also have MTV!); in the 2000s, it was shopping malls and high-rise buildings and multiplex cinemas. This year, it was a Hollywood-style bank heist. In January, a man going by the name of Sohel and his accomplice Idris successfully stole 169 million taka (about $2.2 million) from a branch of Sonali Bank in Kishoreganj, 70 miles north of the capital, Dhaka.

Millennium Development Goals expire next year … What then?  

If you could come up with goals for the world to aspire to over the next 15 years, what would they be? What should we focus on? The United Nations is conducting an online survey, asking people from around the world what matters most to them. More than 2.5-million people have responded, with everything from better transport and roads to affordable and nutritious food under consideration. So far, the top global priority is better education, followed by better healthcare and an honest and responsive government, with reliable energy and climate change at the bottom. But to make a more considered list, we need much more information on what solutions exist, their cost and their likelihood of success to better prioritise these goals.

Higher education and economic productivity in Bangladesh

Prof   Muhammad Mahboob Ali, PhD

Bangladesh is gradually progressing in higher education. Let me here quote Confucius:  “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” For last five and eight months , lot of initiatives have been taken by the Government of Bangladesh .The most pertaining  questions  are contribution of higher education in last five and eight months in the country and  whether  rise of golden GPA 5 in SSC and HSC level creates  any sort of debacle in the education sector? In search of these research questions the study has been taken by the center of Break through thinking in Bangladesh. An opinion pool has been conducted by the Center for Breakthrough thin...

Why al-Qaeda will fail in India and Bangladesh  

In the space of a short few months, the self-styled Islamic State (also known by the acronym ISIS) has claimed to have established a fundamentalist state and revived the Caliphate, while seemingly monopolizing the market on young foreign fighters from Europe and North America, while conducting a sophisticated social media and propaganda campaign. Amid the highly publicized beheadings of Western journalists, soldiers and aid workers accompanied by personal messages to U.S. President Barack Obama, ISIS has established itself as the main jihadist group in the world today, leaving al Qaeda struggling to make an impact.

Can ‘womenomics’ stem the feminisation of poverty in Japan?

Fifty-four-year-old Marlyn Maeda, an unmarried freelance writer living in Tokyo who never held a permanent job, is now watching her dream of aging independently go up in smoke. “I work four jobs and barely survive,” said the writer, who disclosed only her penname to IPS. Her monthly income after writing articles, working at a call centre, selling cosmetics five days a week and working one night at a bar hovers at close to 1,600 dollars. solar JapanMaeda belongs to the burgeoning ranks of the poor in Japan, a country that saw its pover...
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