Readers’ Forum
Education opens opportunity Recently I came across a text in which Queen Rania of Jordan referred to ‘education’ as being equal to ‘opportunity’ because education...
Editorial
Europe’s thorny energy diplomacy
Luca Bergamaschi :On 20 July, European foreign ministers launched the new EU Energy Diplomacy Action Plan. It is a welcome first step towards ensuring that...
In defense of the defenseless
Jeff Tyson :In May 2002, International Justice Mission lawyer Sharon Cohn Wu sat down with her colleague at a hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to...
Hoarders must be asked to release onion stock
THE overheated onion market is making the people nervous throughout the country and particularly the city dwellers have been panicked by the surge of its...
Death tolls of BD workers in Malaysia calls for safety at workplace
NEWS report said a total of 3,312 Bangladeshi migrant workers, mostly between 30 and 40 years age died in the last eight and a half...
Readers` Forum
Rights invite obligationsIt is not human right what the US President or the US Congress defines. But it is what the political philosophers like Kant,...
Honouring culture of inclusive tolerance
Frans Timmermans and Vera Jourová :A Jewish school in Toulouse in 2013; the Brussels Jewish Museum in 2014; a kosher supermarket in Paris last January;...
Promoting low-fee private schooling
Prachi Srivastava :I have been researching low-fee private schooling for nearly a decade and a half. In fact, the term did not exist until I...
Readers’ Forum
Save Hockey The future of the country’s hockey appears quite uncertain, as four leading clubs have threatened of boycotting the Senior Division Hockey League if...
Implementing SDG 16 is a political rather than technical challenge
Louise Riis Andersen and Louise Andersen :The Sustainable Development Goals set an ambitious peace agenda. For the first time security and violence is included in...
How developing countries are paying high price for global mineral boom
John Vidal :A 200ft deep pit gapes where three years ago stood a mountain. Fields where small farmers planted rice and grew fruit are now...
Financial literacy and its impact on inclusive finance
Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :Mainstreaming of inclusive, environmentally sustainable financing figure high in BB’s priority; and stocktaking of financial knowledge base of the target...