Now salt crisis: Competition to make windfall money
SALT crisis has hit the market selling it at Tk 42 per kg before the Eid-ul-Azha when use of salt in tannery industry shoots up...
Editorial
Private universities can`t go without accountability
NEWS reports on Monday said nearly half of the country’s 84 private universities are functioning without Vice-Chancellors and are mostly run by acting VCs. Moreover,...
Rich countries should take development goals seriously too
Lyndal Rowlands :The UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals apply to all 193 UN member states, yet one year in some say that rich countries aren’t...
Local cattle farming has created new hope
IT is said that necessity is the mother of invention. This proverb is reflected now in the dairy and cattle-fattening sector in Bangladesh. Media report...
Leakage in yet another ammonia gas tank
NEWS reports on Sunday said that at least three people fell sick after ammonia gas leaked from a factory in the outskirt of the capital...
Readers’ Forum
Gone days of school sports We saw attractive competition in the annual sports at Shahzadpur High School and Ullapara Merchants’ High School in Sirajganj district...
Myanmar turns to Kofi Annan for help on Rohingya crisis
Sara Perria :Myanmar’s government has responded to pressure from the international community to tackle religious tensions and persecution of Muslims in Rakhine State by appointing...
Readers’ Forum
Preventing fire Prevention is better than cure. All multi-storied office/residential buildings and shopping malls should take a lesson from the Bashundhara City Shopping Complex fire...
Turkey’s careful incursion into Syria
Stratfor :Turkey’s long-anticipated incursion into Syria has begun, exactly 500 years after the Battle of Marj Dabiq, near Aleppo, heralded the Ottoman conquest of much...
Smart technologies key to youth involvement in agriculture
Friday Phiri :She is only 24 and already running her father’s farm with 110 milking cows. Cornelia Flatten sees herself as a farmer for the...
The long wait for leadership change in World Bank groups
Hannah Wurf :Despite pressure for change from emerging economies, the major international economic institutions remain disproportionately controlled by representatives from advanced economies. The World Bank...
Misuse of professional category Visa to Malaysia
BANGLADESHIS migrated to Malaysia under professional category visa are facing various problems due to defective travel documents. But the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur...