Author: Amir M Sayem

Recently, the government has increased the fuel price which raised concerns among different quarters including transport owners in Bangladesh. Immediately, transport owners including bus and launch owners called on strikes and stopped transportation across the country for several days. This led to the enormous suffering of people. But transport owners managed to increase transport fares

Of course, in the prevention and management of disputes and conflicts in different areas, the United Nations and global powers play important roles. But, undeniably, global powers and the United Nations fail to resolve disputes and conflicts as desired because of many reasons including geo-political rivalry or geopolitics of global and regional powers, inadequate and

Of course, learning is important for students. Students learn from educational institutes at different educational tiers. Learning can help students develop various capabilities that are important not only for jobs but also for solving real-life problems and realizing potentials. But students’ learning depends on many factors including teaching approaches that are usually rendered from two

Religious minority, which is a religious group or a religious group of people who are different from the dominant religious group in religious and other associated terms, often becomes the target of vandalism in Bangladesh. A few weeks back, Hindus in many areas were devastatingly attacked during their biggest religious festival. Undeniably, such attacks have

Advertisements, which may be electronic and printed media-based and take other forms such as billboards, are an important means of the promotion of goods and services and creating awareness on different aspects. Of course, advertisements have enormous positive impacts on the economy, persons and overall society. Advertisements, which are increasing in the country, undoubtedly increase

Bangladesh has been making a massive crackdown against e-commerce business platforms for several weeks. By this time, owners and topmost officials of more than a dozen e-commerce companies that are doing business in Bangladesh for the last few years were arrested amidst complaints made by customers. Investigations are going on against many e-commerce business organizations.

Development is important on many fronts in Bangladesh. Of course, Bangladesh is progressing in economic, social and some other aspects. Even if development in some indicators including some economic indicators is smoothly occurring in recent years, it is not going on as is desired. Notably, the desired development can be the one that indicates the optimum development in economic, social, political and all other aspects that can facilitate maximum human development of all. Notably, ‘Sonar Bangla’ or ‘Golden Bangladesh’ is also rendered as the desired development benchmark of Bangladesh. Undeniably, there are many challenges including corruption and a lack of…

In the last month, a virtual meeting, called Leaders Summit on Climate, was held among the world’s seventeen largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters. Such a meeting is significant in the sense that the Paris Climate Deal, which was signed by a considerable number of countries, did not see its expected light. Moreover, increased global warming, along with its disastrous impacts across countries, is a cause for global concern. Under such a context, there is no doubt that such a meeting bears some significance. Even though there is no concrete and immediate outcome of the meeting, it reflects a growing…

National health policies of a country are important for improving the overall health of the population with the improvement of the health sector and its response to diverse health problems. In Bangladesh, the health sector plays crucial roles in the provision of health services at three tiers such as primary, secondary and tertiary and has contributed much to better health situations in terms of different health indicators such as maternal and child healthcare and life expectancy, compared to many other countries, including South Asian neighbours such as India, Pakistan and Nepal. In this respect, health policies have played important roles,…

Of course, the tourism sector is increasingly being considered as an important sector in the world. It contributes in economic and other ways. In Bangladesh, it is undeniably a significant sector. It is usually rendered as service sector but it immensely contributes to the local and national economy in a variety of ways and helps Bangladesh to earn a huge amount of revenue each year. This sector, which consists of several sub-sectors such as accommodation, transportation and travel services, food and beverage, recreation and entertainment and events and conferences, has huge potentials in economic, infrastructural development, human resource development and…