Raising sugar price to support state owned sugar mills not justified
SUGAR price registered a sharp rise in the market to upto Tk 46 per kg from Tk 39 a kg at the lowest two weeks...
Editorial
Clean environment for DMCH burn patients
A LEADING national daily on Tuesday reported on extreme negligence of the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in treating critically burn patients...
Top global newsmakers this year
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent close to two decades in detention under successive military regimes in Myanmar, led her party...
Of inequality and modernization
Ronald Inglehart :(From previous issue)Today, large economic gains are still being made in developed countries, but they are going primarily to those at the very...
Readers’ Forum
Bangabandhu Gold Cup :The Bangabandhu Gold Cup is an international association football tournament organised by the Bangladesh Football Federation.The 4th edition of the tournament will...
Bangladesh Bank alone cannot revive capital market
AS per media report, Bangladesh Bank has relaxed the rules for scheduled banks’ investment in the capital market by excluding their equity investment in subsidiary...
EC`s appeal to PM only shows depth of chaos everywhere
THE New Nation and other dailies on Monday reported that facing growing violation of election codes of conduct by ruling party leaders ahead of the...
Readers’ Forum
A strange co-thinking! :Russian President Bladimir Putin has admired Donald Trump, a candidate for US Presidency because he has demanded sanction on the entry of...
Pay pension benefits to aggrieved teachers
A NATIONAL daily reported on Sunday that retirement benefits of over seventy thousand non-government secondary school teachers and employees which stands at around Tk. 2,400...
Solution through UNSC is the best and must work
THE UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria on the eve of the New Year to facilitate peace talks among the warring parties in January...
Of inequality and modernization
Ronald Inglehart :During the past century, economic inequality in the developed world has traced a massive U-shaped curve-starting high, curving downward, then curving sharply back...
Urbanization and urban poverty in Bangladesh: Issues in disparities, deprivations and rights
Prof. Nazrul Islam :(From previous issue)Fig 4: Bangladesh: Extreme Poverty, 2010, Based on BBS, WFP and World Bank Inequalities Exist in Urban Areas: All citizen’s...