Equal opportunity debate
Jonathan Fox :In some corners of the world, Christian persecution is apparently on the rise, fueled, as The Guardian recently put it, “by Islamic extremism...
Editorial
Developing a strategy for human capital management
Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain :The concept of human resource management has come into practice since the growth of industrialization after the industrial revolution that lasted for...
City Mayors must show competence or resign
INCESSANT rains over the past several days submerged most part of the capital and with many sufferings to people, it also proved that as a...
We need such police constable for human face of police
AMONGST all dismal news of the country and its law enforcers, one wonderful piece of news stood out to show how one brave traffic constable...
Readers’ Forum
Textbooks—a thing of the past! It is often heard that nowadays education, particularly at the university level, is limited to lecture synopsis; students hardly use...
Putting up barriers will not solve the migrant crisis
Assya Kavrakova :Europe is facing an unprecedented migration crisis nowadays. But instead of resolving it, it is on the verge of making an unprecedented mistake....
Children of the world – we are standing for you
Oscar Arias Sanchez :Twenty-eight years ago this month, an indigenous woman stood in the plaza in Guatemala City, watching as the presidents of Central America...
A dispassionate look at the SDGs
Jan Vandemoortele :Almost two years in the making, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) were agreed in early August. By late September, they will be formally...
Insurance sector needs far reaching reforms
THE insurance sector is in a mess from irregularities, corruption and lack of monitoring, in addition to prevalence of some century-old laws; which are not...
We have to fight poverty to stop kidney business
NEWSPAPER reports on Sunday said detectives have arrested five members of a suspected human organ trafficking gang in the capital. They are exploiting the helpless...
We must do enough to save our nationals
MIGRATION of unskilled or semi skilled Bangladeshi nationals abroad has become highly risky and fraught with danger of being cheated and misled at every steps....
Resolve SUST crisis before more violence hits the campus
BANGLADESH Chhatra League activists on Sunday assaulted a group of teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) who were protesting the Vice-Chancellor Prof...