Full employment or unemployment reinsurance?
Ernest Maragall, Jordi Angusto :If the EU were to pursue an employment agenda, then austerity measures in deficit/debtor countries would have to be compensated by...
Editorial
Ensuring accountability of touring assistance expenditures
Jim Kolbe :In a Congress best known for gridlock, inaction and partisanship, something unusual happened at the end of last year that you might have...
Truths about the migrants in Europe
Rayhan Ahmed Topader :When you’re facing the world’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War, it helps to have a sober debate about how...
Who is police and who is not — that is the question
THIS daily has reported that some “fake detectives” on Saturday snatched Tk 700,000 from a businessman at gun point in broad-daylight at the Dhaka University...
Like violence everywhere torture on child domestic aids on rise
Political violence has contaminated in every aspects of the social life. A national daily reported on Monday that 57 percent child workers in Bangladesh are...
Readers’ Forum
Name roads after all sector commanders I have no idea whether there are roads, streets, bridges or institutions after the names of Major (Rtd) M.A....
Rapidly rising diabetes closely linked to poverty
Lyndal Rowlands :Diabetes, which now affects more than 400 million people worldwide, is closely linked to poverty in most regions of the world, World Health...
Brilliant teachers produce better scientists
Marc Durando :What is especially worrying is how many of our educators are not well-prepared to address gender-specific interests or attitudes in STEM education. This...
The good side of CSR
Ryan Scott :With the pile-up of data proving the bottom line benefits of employee volunteer and giving programs, more companies are clamoring to launch or...
Mega projects often end in failure but breed corruption
THE 20km Dhaka-Gazipur Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), scheduled to begin in June, will be at least 50 percent costlier due to four years delay in...
Where life is not safe, forget tourism
PEOPLE said that the tourism sector in Bangladesh should start working towards implementing MICE, meaning meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions, to give the largely untapped...
Building safer cities
WB Feature Story :A year ago in April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal killed nearly 9,000 people and demolished thousands of schools, homes,...