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Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Editorial

Indian economy to face troubles in coming years

Mamta Badkar :With economic growth at a ten-year low, the rupee down over 12% year-to-date against the dollar, capital outflows, and collapsing corporate profits,...

Making election credible

Barrister Nazir Ahmed :The tenth parliamentary election in Bangladesh was held on 5th January 2014 - but, what kind of election was it? Over...

Upazila polls: Another acid test for EC

THE first phase of upazila parishad elections is going to be held today at 97 upazilas across the country in a highly charged political...

Keep social safetynet program above politics

GROWING allocations for Social Safetynet Program (SSNP) has provoked a new debate at a time when the poverty rate has come down in the...

To help Syria, talk first to Iran and Saudi Arabia

Giandomenico Picco and Gabrielle Rifkind :News that the Assad government is ready to send a minister abroad for talks with the leader of the...

Is the Asean Economic Community too ambitious a concept?

Rahul Goswami :Some time next year, we are told, the countries that form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will form an economic...

Managing human resources

Dr Jamal Khan :(From previous issue)The commission, however, needs to be careful in retaining a sufficient number of personnel with adequate control over the...

Readers’ Forum

The poor potato growers Agriculture Minister Matia Choudhury said on the occasion of Agriculturist Day 2014 at Agriculture Institution Hall on Thursday in the...

Commercial banks failed agri-loans as BB looks on

NEWS reports said despite having excess liquidity in their vaults, 18 commercial banks did not disburse any credit to farmers to grow four types...

Promote children’s reading habit

CHILDREN are moving away from the reading habit to vulgar electronic based entertainments which is taking an alarming turn to defeat our efforts to...

Effective law for physician

A STUDY conducted by 'Ain O Shalish Kendra' and reported recently by an English daily made a stunning disclosure that in our existing legal...

TCB to destroy edible oil at what cost

POOR planning and mismanagement of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is again on the headlines as the state owned trading body is going...

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