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.
Social media has turned to be an important means of the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information especially through virtual networks and communities in the world at present. Globally, more than 3.8 billion people use different sorts of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. Of course, the usage of social media,
The concept of development broadly indicates successive states of growth or advancement of any entity. Successive states of growth essentially involve the existence of a latent germ of being — a potentiality striving to realize itself. Development is thus dynamic and continuous in that it brings out the potential that is latent in an entity and involves a gradual process of change from one to another advanced state. Such a change is actuality when it is realized. The development of an entity is complete when the full potentiality of that entity is realized. The fullest or complete development is absolute…
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…
