Higher fuel price no more justified
THE Finance Minister again bypassed his assurance to reduce the price of fuel oil ignoring the call by economists, business leaders and users who say...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
Remove pay inequality We all know that the government has given a green light to the pay scale proposed by the 8th pay board with...
Readers’ Forum
Nature influences cricket It has been proved that the reason a student cannot remember what s/he studied before an examination is because the lighting is...
Higher education in Bangladesh : Impact of globalization and privatization
Professor Amirul Islam ChowdhuryPresident, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh :(From previous issue)Globalization of Higher Education : In 1990, the public sector in Bangladesh lost its monopoly...
Corruption adds up: None to count
Jacqueline Musiitwa, Brian Shea :Corruption continues to make headlines with stories ranging from ever-expanding FIFA indictments, to British American Tobacco’s bribery of African officials, to...
Riyadh-Tehran rivalry is a shame for Muslims fighting among themselves
THE conflict in the Middle East saw a new escalation following the blazing of Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Sunday and Riyadh’s snatching of diplomatic...
Pollution in the city is no concern of anybody
AS it appears dusts and other pollutants are increasingly destroying air quality in Dhaka city making Bangladesh the fourth country with worst urban air quality...
New pay scale making varsities volatile
TEACHERS of all 37 public universities across the country will go for indefinite strike from January 11 protesting several discriminatory provisions in the new National...
Readers’ Forum
Turns of historical events Allama Iqbal, Poet and Philosopher, in his presidential address on 29 December in 1930, called for “the amalgamation of North-West Muslim-majority...
What the WTO ministerial conference could mean for LDCs
Adva Saldinger :As 2015 comes to a close, the parade of high-level events – from the third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis...
Higher education in Bangladesh : Impact of globalization and privatization
Professor Amirul Islam ChowdhuryPresident, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh :This lecture highlights the current situation in Bangladesh Universities. It also tries to investigate into the impact...
Arrests by plain clothes officials are helpful for miscreants and must be stopped
INTERNS at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (SSMCH) on Saturday blocked the Mirpur Road in front of the hospital in the capital for about an...