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...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
ICC U-19 WCC, challenge for BD The 2016 ICC Under-19 World Cricket Cup is an international limited overs cricket tournament to be held in Bangladesh...
China’s slowdown and Asia’s growth
Shang-Jin Wei :China’s economic slowdown this year will have important consequences for countries in the region and beyond. For most countries, the sub-7 per cent...
Biofuels must be part of the transport sector’s decarbonisation plan
Elmar Baumann :After the dust of the COP21 in Paris has settled it now is time for action. The implementation of the European Union 2030...
Who controls global standards?
Clara Weinhardt and Fabian Bohnenberger :This is an updated English version of a commentary that originally appeared in German on EurActiv.de.The 10th Ministerial Conference of...
Idle sitting Environmental Court serves no purpose
NEWS reports in a national daily on Tuesday said the country has three environmental courts in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, but they remained almost unutilized...
Zebra crossing may reduce road accidents
DESPITE many outcries and policy formulation to deter road accident, reckless driving is still snatching many lives and the Saturday’s horrific road accidents at Shahbagh...
Readers’ Forum
Acts of utter indiscipline We have become very upset and frightened by noticing that a section of police force instead of protecting people have become...
Violence against refugee women is often ignored
Irene Zugasti. :The commotion caused by the New Year’s Eve events in Cologne, when organised gangs of men sexually assaulted and mugged women across the...
IMF quota reform
Jeff Tyson :Emerging market countries will now have more influence and access to capital at the International Monetary Fund. More than five years after the...
Decades-old GMO regulation unfit for 21st century
Klaus Ammann and Marcel Kuntz. :New methods of influencing genetic traits in diverse organisms are set to become available at an increasing speed and low...
Our foreign missions must do well
TWENTY-FIVE out of 53 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export targets for the July-December period of the current fiscal year (2015-16)....