Mainstreaming gender issues in line with SDGs
Khaleda Begum :World leaders on 25 September 2015 embraced a comprehensive 15-year global plan of action to end poverty, reduce inequalities and protect the environment,...
Editorial
Improving plastic waste management
Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor, Bangladesh Bank :It is encouraging to see the representatives from the APF member countries gathering here not only to promote their...
Cost of traffic gridlock is too high
TRAFFIC congestion in capital city Dhaka is taking away lots of working hours of its residents causing a loss of about Tk 300 crore a...
No visible initiative to fight arsenic crisis
DRINKING arsenic contaminated water by a large number of people is the largest mass poisoning of a population in history, as per a declaration of...
Debate over private sector finance for climate change
Naki B Mendoza :With the landmark Paris climate agreement now a month-old and the holiday cheer for its accomplishment a bit more subdued, an earnest...
Readers’ Forum
Most movies lack messages :On Monday night, I watched on the VIDEO Channel a movie titled ‘Destination’ produced by film star Omar Sani, who also...
Negotiations, not war help improve diplomatic ties
Sabria Chowdhury Balland :The historic international nuclear agreement between the United States and its allies and Iran was announced in July, 2015. Since then, there...
Tolerance of time limit of judgment writing after retirement
A. Mannan :My hat’s off to the Hon’ble Chief Justice (CJ) of Bangladesh for his remarks on writing judgment after retirement as unconstitutional. He made...
Doctors serving humanity cannot abandon patients
PATIENTS were left to suffer on Thursday as doctors stopped providing all sorts of healthcare services in private hospitals and diagnostic centres in Chittagong. They...
Demand of forming Wage Commission and declining economy
NEWS reports said labour leaders are demanding immediate formation of a Wage Commission for workers of state-owned mills and factories to bring some harmonization of...
Strategic failures put Russian economy in crisis
Ibne Siraj :Before the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin supposedly said “the worse the better.” Essentially what he meant was that the more conditions deteriorated under...
Police lack leadership and feel free to commit crimes
THE world for Bangladeshi women is becoming narrower as police for whom the prime duty is to protect citizens from illegal activities have become the...