Editorial

INDISCRIMINATE digging and repair work of city streets and pavement is just awfully painstaking for city dwellers who have to brave through broken roads and...

SURPRISINGLY, when manpower export to several important destinations is decreasing the thrust for Bangladeshi female migrant workers in several Arab countries seems quite unusual braving...

THE government’s move to reclaim the unused land and factories belonging to different government establishments or occupied by the ruling-party grabbers seems to be a...

A BLEAK picture has emerged about cyber security risks in the country’s 52 percent banks. It is not a reality that we can take lightly....

A suggestion for the DMP My blue book was once seized by a traffic officer. Six months later, I was told that my document had...

Jabier Ruiz :Over the last decades, we have been very successful in boosting agricultural production in Europe, but this has come at an enormous cost:...

Sir Frank Peters :Zimbabwe has followed in the commendable footsteps of the civilised world and outlawed corporal punishment to children, but not without loud moans,...

Stephen S Roach :Slowly but surely a bruised and battered global economy now appears to be shaking off its deep post-crisis malaise. If the International...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury :The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – collectively drafted and then officially agreed to, at the highest level, by...

Michaela Šojdrova : Did you know that three out of four European teachers do not feel encouraged to bring innovation into the classroom? Or that...

Lee Rowland :Controversial, critical, confrontational, and challenging speech is an essential part of any successful college education. Without it, institutions of higher education cannot truly...

Make University Admissions fair :Public universities are considered to be the best providers of quality higher education in Bangladesh. Among them, Dhaka University is revered...