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Secrets of old ship found beneath World Trade Center ruins

It was a Tuesday when construction workers found it. The location was lower Manhattan and the year was 2010 — nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that toppled the World Trade Center towers. The workers were in awe. Underneath the black muck and ooze of the ruins lay an exoskeleton of something that hadn’t seen air for 200 years and, freshly exposed to the elements, was quickly deteriorating. [caption id="attachment_8467" align="alignleft" width="300"]Workers and members of the media inspect Workers and members of the media inspect the hull of a shi...

Tackling private censorship in media

As media ownership passes into many kinds of hands, the sensitivities of corporate and political owners are posing a growing threat to unencumbered reporting

 

State censorship of mainstream media is now passè. No government, at least in our country, has much stomach for it. There is just too much media around, always looking for something to shriek or tweet about. But there is a new beast that the squeamish among us will need to confront even as we are still being coy about its existence. As media ownership passes into many kinds of hands, the sensitivities of corporate and political owners are posing a growing threat to unencumbered reporting. It is a recognized ...

Gaza: The role of Bangladesh as UNPO leader

Breaking all international laws, Israel continues to carry out its genocide against the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza. As the world watches with shock and horror, the United Nations has merely condemned the Israeli assault and questioned the disproportionate use of lethal weaponry on an unarmed population which cannot leave Gaza as it is sealed off from the rest of the world and, according to BBC, “there is no safe place in Gaza.” The international community seems to be powerless to stop this Israeli massacre. gazaSadly enough, the world community exp...

Good governance must for high growth

Adequate infrastructure, energy, skilled manpower, political stability and investment-friendly climate are the key factors for higher economic growth. However, good governance is the key to ensure all these issues, according to the editorial of the current ICCB News Bulletin (April-June 2014) of International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh released on Sunday. Bangladesh is targeting to become at the lower end of middle income country by 2021. The per capita income of the country, according to 2005-06 base years, has reached to $1,190 in 2014. ICC Bulletin

Inside Bangladesh’s cheap cigarette factories

About a year after Sayed Asif Mahmud began hanging around Bangladesh’s bidi factories to document those who make the hand-rolled cigarettes with low-grade tobacco, a cheap and popular alternative for pre-packaged ones across southeast Asia, he stopped. “I’m always in a dilemma with whether I’m the right person to tell someone else’s story,” he tells TIME. “Why am I doing this? For me or for them?” [caption id="attachment_8250" align="alignleft" width="300"]Tobacco Tale Two women remove dust from thrashed tobacco in a factory. Rangpur, February 2008.[/caption] That was in late 2008, as he was finishing h...

India-Bangladesh need to harmonise rice-seed trade

India and Bangladesh need to harmonise their processes for seed certification – a move that can help galvanize bilateral trade and cooperation, boost the production of quality seeds of high-yielding rice varieties in both countries and lay a firm foundation to achieve food security and end hunger, says a paper by CUTS International. bd-indiaRice is the staple in large parts of India and all of Bangladesh, and an increase in productivity will be the key to poverty alleviation efforts. Already, there is widespread informal exchange and smuggling of seeds, ...
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