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...
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Football in crisis How long will the footballers’ poor performance continue? Asked a friend of me. I could not give any explanation, because I am...
Gender inequality in UN offices
Khairul Islam :The 70th anniversary of the United Nations was recently observed all over the world with an inspirational theme of “Strong UN Better World.”...
The widening Sunni-Shia feud
Saeed Qureshi :The execution of prominent Shia clergy Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr along with other 46 persons on 2 January 2016 by Saudi government has...
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...
Let City Corporations prove they can do more
A national daily on Thursday reported that Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq wants RAJUK and WASA under the jurisdiction of the City...
Facing the infections diseases crisis
Lawrence H Summers :This morning, I delivered keynote remarks at the release event for the Global Health Risk Framework Commission report on “The Neglected Dimension...
Can the great powers maintain their grip on global affairs?
Richard Gowan :Wherever you look these days, unhappy regional powers and even some weak states are demonstrating a startling degree of contempt for the supposed...
Introducing a unified school management system
Masum Billah :The recently retired education secretary Nazrul Islam Khan happened to meet the prime minister who wanted to know the number of schools, colleges...
Not easy legal system but easy atmosphere needed for investment
BUSINESS leaders have called for a simplified legal support system to get increased flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country to accelerate the...
Don`t talk of toughness, talk of competence for providing services
CITY Corporations have to ensure services they are supposed to provide before blaming the tax evaders. City dwellers are forced to pay taxes despite the...