Humanitarian aid : Business as unusual?
Baher Kamal :Big business is most often seen by human rights defenders and civil society organisations as “bad news,” as those huge heartless, soulless corporations...
Editorial
Water security critical for world fastest-growing economy
Lack of water management and limited access to data risk hindering Myanmar’s economic growth, making water security a top priority of the new government.Climate change...
Money laundering going on big way: Small ones face cases
A NATIONAL daily reported on Friday that in the back-drop of capital flight from Bangladesh in recent years, the Customs Intelligence, an auxiliary of National...
Ban marketing of adulterated vermicelli
A REPORT carried by The New Nation on Saturday detailed how the production of adulterated and sub-standard vermicelli is going on unabated across the country...
More to do in nutritional front
AS per Global Nutrition Report released on Thursday, Bangladesh is slipping back in exclusive breastfeeding while doing badly in the rest five indicators out of...
Special allocation will not serve people’s cause
LAWMAKERS demand in Parliament on Thursday for allocation of Tk 100 crore in the new budget for 2016-17 that should be exclusively placed under their...
Special allocation will not serve people’s cause
LAWMAKERS demand in Parliament on Thursday for allocation of Tk 100 crore in the new budget for 2016-17 that should be exclusively placed under their...
Partnering to promote inclusion and opportunity for persons with disabilities
World Bank story: More than 1 billion people -15% of the world’s population- experience some form of disability; between 110 and 190 million people have...
Duel visa policy!
The government is perpetrating a deceit on the British public over plans for extending visa-free travel to the UK for Turkish nationals, formar minister Iain...
Late realization
Brazil’s Football Confederation fired national football team’s coach Carlos Dunga on Tuesday in the wake of the team’s first round elimination from the Copa America...
Achieving the budgetary targets
Anu Mahmud: The proposed budget has substantially increased allocation for education and social safety net. Education budget in particular has been raised to Tk 49,009...
Readers’ Forum
Tonu’s cause of death still unknown We have become speechless with disbelief by reading the report published in the local newspapers on June 13, 2016...