ADP implementation at four years low
REPORTS in a national daily on Tuesday said the development spending in the first quarter of the current fiscal 2015-16 is the lowest in four...
Editorial
Bangladesh leads America in children’s rights
Sir Frank Peters :American House Democrats Karen Bass, Judy Chu and Luis V. Gutiérrez in the spiritual presence of Bruce Lesley have just introduced a...
Local bodies election on party line means party dictatorship all the way
THE cabinet on Monday approved the draft to amend the local government laws to conduct elections to all local bodies on political partisan basis. It...
Public hospitals must have enough facility to treat patients
THE New Nation on Wednesday reported how the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics Rehabilitation (NITOR) has been suffering from shortage of qualified physiotherapists and...
Readers’ Forum
Football crowd crisis! The qualifying round matches of the AFC U-19 Football Championship (Group A) ended in Dhaka early this month peacefully with Uzbekistan as...
Africa by 2050
Musa Okwonga :By 2050, Africa will be home to an additional 1.2 billion people. More than 47 million young people will enter the labor market...
SDGs are not a missed opportunity
Douglas Beal :As world leaders return to their respective countries following the UN Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the context for implementation provides...
Readers’ Forum
Golden Rice The development of the world’s first vitamin A enriched Golden Rice by Bangladeshi agricultural scientists is indeed a major step towards achieving global...
Free Julian Assange
Thomas L. Knapp :The Associated Press reports that “British police have removed the officers standing watch over Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London,...
Persistent mistrust may influence Japan’s joining China-led bank
J. Berkshire Miller :Earlier this year China unveiled its Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), an international financial institution with goals to promote infrastructure development in...
Is the miracle of microfinance illusory?
S. Kulkami and Raghav Gaiha :Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, transformed the lives of millions of poor women through unsecured micro...
President wants the present politics of money making to end
PRESIDENT Abdul Hamid on Tuesday said the country’s politics has gone to businessmen’s pocket to make easy money which is not possible overnight in other...