Police leadership must be strong to save police from politics
PRESIDENT Abdul Hamid and others in the government are asking police to restrain themselves and not to be harsh with the people. But the question...
Editorial
Reducing high rate of maternal mortality
ACCORDING to a national daily reports on Friday, over 8,31,000 stillbirths, 5,000 pregnancy-related deaths of women, and 76,000 neonatal deaths occur every year in Bangladesh...
Readers’ Forum
Share of inheritance One of the reasons of depriving females is ignorance about the law of inheritance. A very few of us study on the...
Beware of banking crisis
Jacob Shapiro for Geopolitical Futures :The European Central Bank sought to calm panic emanating from Italy’s banking sector on 19 January. The previous day, six...
Use technology to narrow poverty gap
World Bank Featured Story :In Latin America’s cities the mobile is king. From adverts for the next smartphone to the obligatory WhatsApp chat, it’s not...
New pay scale created more issues than solved
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Of course belatedly 8th pay scale for the employees of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh was approved through gazette notification. Only...
Managing waste of Dhaka city
Md. Shah Paran :Wastes are not new. Waste generation is rooted to the origin of mankind. We, human beings, are responsible for generating and managing...
Readers’ Forum
Attendance crisis :The Under-19 World Cup Cricket suffers from attendance crisis mainly due to poor advertisement. Even the match between hosts Bangladesh and the defending...
Show responsibility to save dying rivers
IN a move to save the major rivers around the capital city, the government has made Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP) mandatory for all factories, as...
Shifting to LPG may hit hard households
THE New Nation reported on Friday that the government is planning to switch at least 70 percent of households to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) use...
Readers’ Forum
Free Dhaka from pollution THE amount of pollution that we have to deal with during the dry winter season is becoming unbearable. Everywhere on the...
Saving more lives with business
Joseph Cahalan :When a Concern Worldwide emergency response worker bumped into Jim Fraser of Flexiway Solar Solutions in 2011 and shared her vision of an...