HR helps people lead lives less bound by tradition
MD. Abul QuasemDeputy Governor, Bangladesh Bank :Human resource (HR) development can be defined as the process of increasing knowledge, skills, and the capacity of people...
Editorial
Money is dignity: Politics is business
NEWS reports said the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has returned four bills on doubling the remuneration and privileges of the...
Stalled progress in family planning worrisome
ACCORDING to a national daily report, although Bangladesh’s progress in family planning had been impressive over the last two decades, it has been almost stagnant...
Readers’ Forum
Poor international status of our universities This is in reference to Dr. Ahmed A. Azad’s article entitled, “The question of status over academic excellence” published...
NGOs are abusing their power
In 2015, with a budget just creeping into six figures, my NGO provided psychological, socioeconomic and educational support to more than 150 families. We could...
Refugee crisis exposes our moral bankruptcy
Zoe Williams :The Germans want to introduce a pan-European tax to pay for the refugee crisis. The Danish want to pass a law to seize...
The ‘tipping point’ for climate change
Marlowe Hood :When future generations write the history of humanity’s faltering quest to repair Earth’s climate system, 2015 will have its own chapter.Nature, along with...
We support independent police administration
A REPORT published in The New Nation on Wednesday said field-level senior police officials have demanded setting up an independent police division in the Ministry...
DSCC’s plan to set up earthquake warning center is a timely move
A LEADING daily on Tuesday said that during an earthquake in Dhaka city, gas, electricity, water, and sewerage lines would be damaged incalculably and the...
Need to tackle non-communicable diseases
Claudiu Ciprian Tanasescu, Claudia Monteiro de Aguiar :Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the true silent killer of our time, responsible for 60% of global deaths. This...
IGP says sorry asks police not to use force against citizens
THE Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque on Sunday said ‘sorry’ for the faults committed by police personnel contrary to the arrogance that...
Vice-Chancellors must cease to be effective party workers
According to a press report the Dhaka University is thinking of taking legal action to get more than Tk. 4.38 crore back from 60 former...