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Author: Amir M Sayem
Amir M Sayem is the Chief Editor of Dhaka Opinion Magazine. He is also an author, researcher and commentator on miscellaneous issues including social, political, environmental, public health and international relations. He writes with an intention to help develop societal conditions across countries.
Of course, water is needed for everyone’s life in the world – be it a member of Homo sapiens or any other species. Without water, life cannot be even thought of. But it needs to be clean for drinking, cooking, bathing, and so on. Clean water has enormous benefits. Potable water keeps one healthy by preventing the spread of diseases and improving health conditions. This alternatively indicates that safe water results in reduced mortality, morbidity or injury. On the contrary, a lack of safe water causes diarrhea and other types of diseases. Moreover, a large number of persons die each…
Of course, teachers are respected and valued with some differences across countries including Bangladesh. This is not only because they are very important to guide students but also for a range of other crucial reasons including they disseminate good norms and values among students, the community and society. Indeed, they provide enormous time for playing their roles and responsibilities to students, the creation and dissemination of knowledge as well as their contribution to society. From the educational viewpoint, they provide services not only to the primary or elementary level but also to secondary and tertiary levels. For all of these,…
The coronavirus pandemic has brought enumerable harms to humans through taking lives, devastating the economy and many others but benefitted much to the environment, both natural and built-in, across the world, even if there are some negative aspects including the continued deforestation in the Amazon forest. Since the beginning of lockdown, the whole world has been experiencing a very different sort of environment mainly because of the absence of man-made reasons for environmental degradation. Indeed, carbon emissions declined much (according to Carbon Brief), water and air pollution that was dangerous in many countries decreased now, wild-life animal trading stopped, and…
Education, which is usually the process of gaining knowledge and developing skills and capacities, mind, characters and other qualities, is very important for all across countries. Of course, education is given in all countries and is given at different tiers such as the early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary levels. It is very important for persons who are educated as well as for their families, communities and wider societies. Indeed, education helps human beings to not only gain knowledge on diverse sorts, become aware of the surroundings and get better jobs but also improve diverse problem-solving skills, improve and refine…
The arms trade is on the rise. It is one of the most economically significant trades around the world. Each year, around one hundred billion US dollars are spent for buying arms by state and non-state actors. Usually, developed and militarily powerful countries spend more on the development of weapons than developing and less developed countries. But many developing countries are increasingly spending more on producing and buying arms for increasing military strengths. Furthermore, non-state actors in some countries buy arms for continuing civil wars or other reasons. Because of the increased arms race and conflicts, the development of weapons…
The crisis in Syria, also known as the Syrian Civil War, is a conflict among different groups with multiple agendas. But the conflict is broadly between the government and anti-government groups in Syria. Civil war has already brought enormous negative impacts including the deaths of around 500000 people, injuries of hundreds and thousands of civilians (including children) and displacements of around 12 million people from their home places as refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Moreover, the conflict made socio-economic conditions vulnerable through devastating infrastructure (including school buildings, health facilities, roads and supply lines), damaging heritage sites, hindering economic activities,…
The environment is rendered as the key to the existence of life on the earth and enormously affects human beings and all other species. It provides natural services to human beings and all other species. Environment particularly serves human beings with oxygen, food, water, fuel, medicines, building materials and many other things. Certainly, it has both positive and negative impacts. It positively contributes to the growth and development of human beings and various other species, provides opportunities for income, contributes to good physical and mental health and brings many other positive impacts. But it negatively affects the growth of humans…
Different universities and pharmaceutical industries have made unprecedented efforts to develop a vaccine(s), which can save lives and reduce transmissions of the high capacity novel coronavirus that has in the mean time caused deaths of around 0.6 million and devastated economic and other aspects around the world. At this moment, eight potential candidate vaccines from several countries including the UK, the USA, China, Germany and Russia Germany are in the second to third clinical trial phase and progressing faster compared to any other pathogen development in history. If things go on the right track, safe and effective vaccine(s) may be…
In the recently held local elections, three people were killed and many were injured because of the clashes of opponent groups in Bangladesh. Electoral violence is, of course, not new in the country. Sometimes electoral violence is at an extreme level, sometimes it is less severe. It is difficult to find elections from the national to city corporations to local levels that are not marred by some sort of violence, which occurs before, during and immediately after elections. But it does not get deserved attention though violence-free electoral campaigns and cast of votes without any fear, threats of attacks, or…
Of course, politics and geopolitics are undeniable, since each political party and group within a state and sovereign state has different sorts of interests and interests of each party or group and each state often contradict with those of others. But the problem arises when politics within a country boundary and geo-politics that are sometimes based on unacceptable grounds can at times lead to enormous destruction or bring enormous negative impacts on many. These not only kill and displace millions of people but also bring many other negative impacts including economic harm and the suppression of gifted and talented individuals…