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...
Editorial
Rohingya refugees: Would they be sent back?
Dr. M. Aminul Islam Akanda :The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority of Myanmar, has been being pushed out from their homeland for decades. There were...
G77, a key partner in reform of the UN system
Miroslav Lajcak :When the Charter of Algiers was adopted 50 years ago, it marked the unity of the Group of 77. This unity has not...
Malnutrition in Urban area
Manipadma Jena :Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. One in three stunted under-five children out of 155...
Readers’ Forum
Wrong application of AFC rules :Contrarily to the FIFA and the AFC clause, the fate of the SAARC U-18 Football Championship was decided on the...
Widening job options for rural youths
MEDIA reports said the government has undertaken a nationwide project involving Tk 1,335-crore for excavating ponds, canals and water bodies aiming to create jobs for...
If ACC can`t go against influential people then they should stop boasting
THE Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Thursday mentioned their incapability of bringing influential people to justice as they could hold back the documents related...
No end to `crossfire` deaths
IT is human nature to learn from past experiences. But when it comes to deaths in so-called ‘crossfire’, law enforcement agencies seem to have learned...
Readers’ Forum
Make the pavements hawkers free It feels as if I have arrived at the city of Chittagong after a very long time. The age-old New...
Torturing detainees is immoral
Roshni Majumdar :A Manual for Investigative Interviewing to abolish torture among detainees suspected of crime is in the pipeline, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Violence against girls is corrosive to society
Kevin J. Jenkins and Susan Bissell :There may be nothing more corrosive to our societies than allowing this assault to continue.Yet there are some signs...
Durga Puja
Dulal Bhowmik :Durga Puja, the most popular religious festival of Bangali Hindus, celebrates the return of the goddess Durga to her natal home. In some...