Govt buildings with bamboo sticks: PWD must be punished
IT is alarming that contractors are using bamboo sticks instead of iron rods in the construction of multi-storied government buildings and other public works violating...
Editorial
Bank officials collude in granting loans against fake documents
AS media report Bangladesh Bank instructed all commercial banks, particularly the state-owned banks recently not to provide ample loans to any party only on the...
Brexit will not affect our business is too early to say
BRITAIN has reassured Bangladesh of continued duty-free market access for all our exports except firearms until Brexit becomes effective for which the British government is...
Readers’ Forum
A laudable initiative We envision a country where children will be safe and comfortable, and no girls will be abused or harassed. A land where...
Need for reassessing effectiveness of CSR in corporate sector
Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain :In the current age of rigorous competition, it is the pertinent time to assess the impact of CSR on the performance of...
Funding inclusive education for children with disabilities in developing countries
Lindah Mogeni :About half of the world’s 65 million school-age children with disabilities in developing countries are reportedly out of school, according to a new...
The world economy without China
Stephen S. Roach :Is the Chinese economy about to implode? With its debt overhangs and property bubbles, its zombie state-owned enterprises and struggling banks, China...
We condemn attack on Hindu villages in B`Baria
WE are deeply frustrated and also ashamed of the unfortunate attacks on homes and business establishments of Hindu neighbours at Nasirnagar Upazila headquarters in Brahmanbaria...
Readers` Forum
Free all roads from tolls We heartily congratulate Minister Obaidul Quader for being elected as General Secretary of Awami League. In light of the Prime...
Climate doomsday getting closer !
Baher Kamal :Almost inadvertently, humankind is getting closer everyday to the point of no-return towards what could be called the ‘climate doomsday’. Now, globally averaged...
Infrastructure needs – Key challenges for cities
Emilio Godoy :“We as mayors have to govern midsize cities as if they were capital cities,” said Héctor Mantilla, city councilor of Floridablanca, the third-largest...
Are public enterprises necessarily inefficient?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram :From the 1980s, various studies purported to portray the public sector as a cesspool of abuse, inefficiency, incompetence and corruption. Books and...