Written by: Shakila Nahar How far has Bangladesh advanced in the issue of sexual health and reproductive rights? If we look at it from the perspective of 13 year old garment worker Rahima Begum, the answer is not very much. ” I began menstruating 2 years ago, but due to our low income pads have […]
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Written by: Adiba Tahsin Extracurricular activities refer to the plethora of activities that are done outside of the cutthroat academic curriculum. Starting from gardening at home, singing and even filmmaking to winning gold medals in olympiads, anyone can do extracurriculars anytime. It also doesn’t have to be sponsored by institutions but anything done in one’s
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Written By: Mohammad Sifat In an ideal world, “Vaccine for All” campaign might be a well-suited phrase. But situations in the real world are far from the anticipated. The global perspective suggests, in low-income countries, the majority of the people have barely been vaccinated with the first dose. According to the Our World in Data
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Written By: Hrishik Roy Recently, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia have announced a new three-way strategic defence alliance between the three countries. Dubbed as the AUKUS, this alliance will seek to provide Australia with nuclear powered submarines which are much more technologically advanced than the current Australian submarine fleet and will help
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Written By: Tayabur Rahman After 20 years of conflict, the Taliban managed to get back to their throne again after negotiating hard with the world community, especially with America. Their ascension to the throne is evidently creating a huge panic in the minds of the world’s community. Again, there are countries who are optimistic and
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Written By: Md. Rakibul Mobin With the recent withdrawal of its military from Afghanistan, the United States has finally put an end to a sanguinary war of 20 years. This war started as a U.S response to the infamous terrorist attacks of 9/11. It was just the beginning of a series of deadly wars. But
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Written by: Raghib Mahtab President Xi Jinping has formulated his vision of the “Chinese dream,” which aims to “the great renewal of the Chinese people” ever since he rose to power in 2021. President Jinping has committed to ‘restoring’ China’s 4,444 historical influence and status by transforming China into a moderately prosperous country by 2020
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Written by: Mashrefa Tarannum The Youth Policy Forum launched its Road to Reforms (RtR) series to prepare a youth-led reform matrix for a paradigm shift in Bangladesh. Under the series, the YPF education network organized the webinar styled “Towards a new social contract: Progressive education for a knowledge-based society” last week. Dr. Fuad Hasan Mallick,
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Written by: Adiba Tahsin It has been 50 years since the independence of Bangladesh, and it is crucial to take a close look at the policies made in the past and study which of them were fruitful and which of them needs to be reformed. YPF has launched the series “Road to Reforms” to produce
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Written by: Prokriti Das Srishti The information and communication technology sector has seen a lot of achievements in the last decade. Extensive improvement in the usage of mobile phones as well as the internet has been observed. E-governance has been introduced in the country, which seems to have accelerated numerous government activities. Despite many adventures,
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