High time to mend culture of question leakage
Dilshad Hossain Dodul :What is the definition of ‘news’? Most of us tend to define news as the information about unusual events. When something unusual...
Editorial
Larger Russian role in Syria!
Talmiz Ahmad :Syria has been in the throes of civil conflict for nearly five years. In this period, a quarter of a million people have...
A damaged child today is a broken adult tomorrow
Sir Frank Peters :In every child there are the makings of a saint. It’s absurd to have such heavenly qualities beaten out of them in...
UGC`s failure in setting pvt varsity ranking system
EVEN though 15 months have passed, the University Grants Commission (UGC) have failed to introduce a ranking system for the private universities to promote quality...
Increased transport fares to affect public life severely
THE transport operators were found on Thursday defying the government-fixed transport fares as private bus and minibus passengers in the capital and Port City Chittagong...
Adopting an integrated approach in post-2015 era
Gregory Beck :Impressed with their success in Kenya, the donor installed state-of-the-art hand pumps along Somalia’s Jubba River, confident that community members would also benefit...
Measuring poverty in a rapidly changing world
World Bank Story :The World Bank Group has set itself the target of bringing down the number of people living in extreme poverty to less...
Protracted stagnation threatens international solidarity, development
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Rob Vos :A new post-2015 international development agenda is to be officially launched next week at a U.N. summit in New...
Readers’ Forum
The avoidable Mina tragedy :We are horror stricken, outraged and feeling deep sorrow by the incident in which more than thousand pilgrims died and hundreds...
Security issues overshadowing buyers’ visit
NEWS reports said garment exporters are taking the brunt of the ‘security concerns’ at the highest; which recently surfaced centering the planned visit of Australian...
Resolve admission test crisis to medical colleges
WHEN students are demanding fresh admission test to medical and dental colleges throughout the country with credible evidence that the admission test held last month...
It is more like a talk-fest
Dr. Palitha Kohona :UNGA 70 formally commenced on Sep. 15. In accordance with custom, it elected a new President, Denmark’s Mogens Lykketoft, who has picked...