Global Pandemic

FILE PHOTO: Small toy figures are seen in front of diplayed Amazon logo in this illustration taken March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Global Economy

Amazon to hire 100,000 more workers in its latest job spree this year

She did not have comment on whether automation means fewer jobs per warehouse but said Amazon uses its systems for collaboration with people

A woman waits outside a U.S. remittance collection agency in San Isidro, El Salvador, on June 10. Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images
Coronavirus chronicle

It is too late to save these victims of the pandemic

Navana first to seek Tk1,200 crore pandemic bailout
Trade

Navana first to seek Tk1,200 crore pandemic bailout

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Coronavirus chronicle

Pandemic shatters world order, sowing anger and mistrust

Hijras are not socially integrated. They politically and economically marginalized, and culturally considered to be the ‘other’. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Thoughts

Hope the hijras are not the expendable ‘bare life’ of global pandemic!

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Coronavirus chronicle

Humans to blame for spread of coronavirus and other ‘zoonoses’

File Photo: World Bank President David Malpass responds to a question from a reporter during an opening press conference at the IMF and World Bank's 2019 Annual Fall Meetings of finance ministers and bank governors, in Washington, US, October 17, 2019/ Reuters
Global Economy

Ease debt burden of low and middle-income countries: World Bank

File Photo: An employee sorts gold bars in the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant 'Oegussa' in Vienna, Austria, December 15, 2017. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
Global Economy

Gold scales 7-year high on rising economic worries, Fed stimulus

Some history lessons are hard to learn. Photo: Bloomberg
Thoughts

Get ready, a bigger disruption is coming

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Coronavirus chronicle

Worst pandemics in modern history