WASA Chairman resigns under duress
Staff Reporter :Engineer Md Rahmatullah resigned the post of Chairman of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) under the pressure of vested quarters and...
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ACC to Immigration / Don’t let ex-judge Faruq flee
UNB, Dhaka :The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sent a letter to the Immigration Department asking it to take steps so that former judge Faruq Ahmed...
Parents, put down the cellphones
Jane Scott :I’ve been a pediatrician for 20 years, and I thought I’d seen it all. But not long ago when a father brought his...
Gaza and World War-I
Neil Berry :It seems a strange fatality that the latest horrors perpetrated by Israel in Gaza have coincided with the commemoration in the United Kingdom...
Nature’s terror weapon
George F. Will :Although the Ebola virus might remain mostly confined to West Africa, it has infected the Western imagination. This eruption of uncontrolled nature...
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Teach the real history According to an official declaration, August 15 is the National Morning Day. On this day 39 years ago, the then President...
Only change in political climate can improve trade performance
TRADE and business are still following a sluggish trend though there is a continuation of the incumbency by a voter-less election. The precarious nature of...
Drugs for saving lives, not taking away lives
MANY lives could have been saved had the Directorate General of Drug Administration acted efficiently in 1991, said the verdict in a drug adulteration trial,...
Djokovic outlasts Simon to advance at Cincinnati
AFP, Cincinnati :Novak Djokovic pulled his championship tennis back together after last week’s early exit, beating Gilles Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to reach the third...
Bangladesh teams maintain win in Chess Olympiad
Bangladesh men’s and women’s teams maintained their winning in the 41st World Chess Olympiad beating their respective counterparts in the 10th round matches in Tromso,...