Culture of intolerance undermining democracy
PARLIAMENT on Wednesday passed “The Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Bill 2016” empowering the government to cancel registration of NGOs for making derogatory and livid...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
Recruiting good teachers Neither the existing viva tests nor the ministry recommended written tests for teacher recruitment is enough to ensure quality education in public...
Time to get holistic approach on energy
Anders Stouge:The energy sector in Europe is integrating at remarkable speed, through the regional building of interconnectors and market coupling. It is happening in parallel...
Bangla – Afghanistan OD : A dress rehearsal for forthcoming OD series against England
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Tigers could have easily whitewashed Afghanistan. It could not. The main reason playing one day after a long layoff. Tigers were...
A missed opportunity for sustainability
Beate Sjåfjell :The convergence of crises that we face as a global society, with its grand challenge of how to achieve social progress for all...
Poors` low cost rice helping politically influential ones
THE low cost rice for the poor that the government has put on sale recently at Tk 10 per kg is disappearing from dealers shop...
WB secret funding of Rampal Power Project unacceptable
THE news that the World Bank (WB) is indirectly funding the construction of Rampal Coal-fired Power Project at a time when people of Bangladesh are...
Readers’ Forum
Numerology fauours Hillary According to the numerology, there will be a fierce contest in the US Presidential election 2016 to be held on November 8...
First month of the Islamic calendar bears more religious importance
Muhammad Taqi Usmani :Muharram is the month with which the Muslims begin lunar Hijrah Calendar. It is one of the four sanctified months. These months,...
Learning from mistakes
Manjur Ahmed :In job, somebody sometimes may not keep patience and make mistakes. One of my senior colleagues says, the person who works more, commits...
Trudeau showed greatness welcoming the refugees with respect
NO Western leader has shown so much warmth and humanity in making the refugees feel welcome as done by Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada,...
Ambiguity over handling of spent fuel of Rooppur plant
NEWS report on Wednesday said uncertainty over whether Russia will take back the spent fuel to be produced in Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is likely...