Produce skilled manpower instead of aimless graduates
THE New Nation on Thursday reported that about 47 percent graduates of the country are unemployed and the number is increasing day by day as...
Editorial
Killing of a female patient by muggers in India
NATIONAL dailies reported recently on the sexual assault and later death of a Bangladeshi woman in the hands of Indian miscreants at Nagpur Railway Station...
Readers’ Forum
Water flow at Hardinge Bridge point The people of Paksey Union under Iswardi upazilas in Pabna district have not heard the murmur of the River...
Evolving a good procurement system
Lean Alfred Santos :One of the most important phases in the implementation of public works and development programs is procurement – or the acquisition of...
Economic growth doesn’t create jobs, it destroys them
Graeme Maxton :After so many years of being told the same thing, it is barely surprising that we believe it. Economic growth is good, we...
Engineering a path to sustainable energy
Anna Dirksen :In the past five years, Bechtel delivered three world-class solar projects powering approximately 275,000 homes in California. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System,...
Army in cantonment is not deployment for election
THE Election Commission’s (EC) decision to deploy army to election duty has been welcomed by city dwellers and the nation as a whole as they...
Priority of police must be to prevent dangerous crimes
ALMOST all news outlets carried the story that said a band of armed robbers barged into a private bank, killing seven people in Ashulia industrial...
Readers’ Forum
Martial art movies There has not been a real Martial Art based movie in Bangladesh despite potential actors like Siraj Panna, Dani Sidaq, Ilyas Cobra,...
The Greek crisis and problem of free trade
George Friedman :The Greek crisis is moving toward a climax. The issue is actually quite simple. The Greek government owes a great deal of money...
World Water Forum needs to be more than just a trade show for privatisation
Satoko Kishimoto :The world may have met the target for access to safe drinking water set out by the millennium development goals, but work remains...
Govt must not end election politics for violence to prevail
THE attacks on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade by the ruling party activists in the capital’s Karwan Bazar area on Monday and at Nayapaltan on...