Las Vegas shooting: An act of unmatched cruelty under Trump`s dangerous divisions
YET, another shooting spree occurs in Las Vegas killing 59 and injuring as many as 527 shocked the world on last Sunday. In details, a...
Editorial
Govt lacks capacity to utilize even Indian LoCs
BANGLADESH’S utilisation of Indian Lines of Credits (LoCs) has been nothing more than a sorry state of affairs in the past seven years, as per...
Readers’ Forum
Import rice on emergency basis Rice is an extremely important and sensitive food item for Bangladesh because it is the country’s most important staple food....
Parliamentarians: ‘Fourth Pillar’ of Sustainable Development
Baher Kamal :Investing in youth and the population dividend, women’s health, sustainable development objectives, and the key role of parliamentarians to promote transparency, accountability and...
Public-private partnership is not the only answer
Manuel F. Montes :In discussions at the UN about achieving Agenda 2030, it has become de rigueur to highlight the role of the private sector....
It`s not a bilateral issue, and it`s another country’s internal crisis
A MINISTER of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Office, U Kyaw Tint Swe, is currently leading talks with Bangladesh, led by our Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali....
Highest cost, lowest quality of road construction
WHILE the cost of road construction in Bangladesh is highest in the world, the quality of the roads is quite poor. According to the experts...
Regulate plying of Easy Bikes
ABOUT one million electric vehicles, popularly known as Easy Bikes, are running in the streets for transporting 2.5 crore passengers in both townships and rural...
Readers’ Forum
Dealing with beggars Begging is a complex social problem with no quick fix. The way we come across various reports on begging brings out the...
Malnutrition in Urban area
Manipadma Jena :(From previous issue)Many city-dwellers in Asia, and in India specifically, particularly men when they migrate alone, have limited time and no place to...
Promoting cultural rapprochement
Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen :The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), by virtue of its position of being the second largest international organization outside the UN...
Trade war over internet domain
Francisco Mingorance. :Companies developing open connectivity standards are under threat from Silicon Valley’s gatekeepers, who are attempting to wrestle away control of these innovative technologies...