Digital Bangladesh
Palak asks BSCCL to ensure uninterrupted internet at affordable cost
State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday instructed the state-owned Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) to take all-out initiatives to ensure uninterrupted internet bandwidth supply in the country at an affordable cost to build Smart Bangladesh.
Don’t pressurize students: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the guardians and teachers not to put extra pressure on students rather let them learn with sports and various cultural activities.
Will the police in Smart Bangladesh control traffic by raising hands?
How many more days will the police in Smart Bangladesh control traffic by raising their hands? A very straightforward question, although there's no one to answer. In the capital city Dhaka, there are automatic traffic signals installed. Many years ago, people began adapting themselves to this system. But don’t know what happened, people started crossing the roads despite the signals, and the automatic traffic signals remained dysfunctional.
Desirable multilingual education in Bangladesh
In the 1950s, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis claimed that each language shapes and describes life and the world differently. If true, multilingual education could be more effective and complete than monolingual education. Multilingual education can be either natural or organic, like the Latin-based system in ancient Rome when Latin was alive, or artificial, like the Latin-based system in the Middle Ages when Latin was a dead language. The argument posits that natural multilingual education ensures general and effective education, while artificial multilingual education fails in both aspects. In Bangladesh, a Bengali language-based multilingual education system would be natural and effective since Bengali is the language of the masses. Conversely, an English-based multilingual education system would be artificial because English is not the language of the masses in Bangladesh. Moreover, it might undermine the use of the Bengali language, causing ultimate harm.
Govt transforming Coast Guard into three-dimensional force: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday (March 10) said her government has been turning Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) into a modern and three-dimensional force adding ultra-modern smart technologies, ships and helicopters to effectively tackle the challenges of the 21st century
Very few are genuinely progressive and non-communal by heart
American expatriate writer couple Jyoti Prakash Dutta and scientist and poet Purabi Basu recently came to Dhaka. The 'Views Bangladesh' team went to their residence in Shantinagar, Dhaka, to hear about their writings and philosophy at the twilight time of their lives. The poet Girish Goiric and novelist Ranzit Sarker and co-editor of Views Bangladesh Mahfuz Sardar had a long conversation about the writer couple's literature, philosophy, politics, etc.
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