Violence against girls demands effective laws
Sirpa Pietikäinen and Marie Rose Nguini Effa.:When we hear the term violence against women, we often forget that it includes women of all ages, with...
Editorial
Promoting ‘go green’ model of development
Michael Igoe :Northeast Brazil boasts some of the world’s most beautiful beaches, ribbons of white sand tracing a region known as “a terra da felicidade”...
CNG fuel too costly to run industry
THE New Nation on Monday reported that most manufacturing industries are using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cylinders in their plants both in absence of new...
Domestic workers also must have rights to decent life
NEWS reports in a national daily said the Cabinet would approve the Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy-2015 by mid-November to protect around 2 million...
Readers’ Forum
Equal enforcement of law We are stunned by learning that police still did not take actions against the teenage drunk driver who injured four people...
Readers’ Forum
Poor football performance by South Asians In the World Cup Football 2018 and the Asian Cup Football 2019 qualifying rounds, the South Asian countries namely...
The sad fading away of the refugee crisis story
Kim Ghattas :Last month, 44 children died at sea trying to cross to safety from the Middle East to Europe. None of them made world...
Attaining inclusive, equitable socio-economic development
Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :Perhaps, we already know what to expect in the new flagship BEF publication outlining multi-track, multi-dimension pathways for needed concerted...
Responsibility of political leadership has to be taken seriously
THE tragic incident before Holy Ashura procession in the old city in the early hours of Saturday killing one young boy in bomb blasts and...
Anyone can give gas connection, when govt. can’t
A RECENT news report in The New Nation said more than 250-kilometre gas pipelines installed without permission of the concerned distribution company in the capital...
School — The best place for learning social skills
Masum Billah :Academic certificates don’t give us the skills to meet some situations we face in our everyday life. These skills can be termed as...
China`s charm offensive continues to sputter in Southeast Asia
Joshua Kurlantzick :After a decade, in the 2000s, in which China aggressively pursued warmer relations with many Southeast Asian nations, using a combination of diplomacy,...