There has to be accountability for deaths on roads
A news item in The New Nation on Friday reported yet another tragic road accident at Faridpur on Dhaka-Barisal highway on the previous night that...
Editorial
Admission using illegal means must stop
SOME English dailies reported on Thursday how a Chhatra League leader of the Dhaka University forged the signature of the Vice-Chancellor (VC) to get admission...
Readers’ Forum
A year that was! Pahela Baishakh is here but it is a matter of great regret that I am not feeling enthusiastic to say Shovo...
Human factors of development
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir :We may know – perhaps even at first hand – of a gap in society whose presence causes pain for countless individuals....
The Obama doctrine and Iran
Thomas L. Friedman :In September 1996, I visited Iran. One of my most enduring memories of that trip was that in my hotel lobby there...
Food safety is a shared social responsibility
Amy Evans :This year, World Health Day on April 7th was concerned with improving food safety from the farm to the plate. This is a...
Fear of arrest and physical threat obstructing campaigns
MAYORAL aspirants to two Dhaka City Corporations started campaigns in a grossly uneven field from Monday while the ruling party backed candidates are crisscrossing city...
New banks must restraint from aggressive banking
AS per a news report in an English daily the newly set up six commercial banks are now running aggressive banking sanctioning huge loans to...
Making Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank operative
Raj M. Desai and James Raymond Vreeland :China launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in October of 2014 and has met with nothing but...
Budget must highlight on tax reforms
HARASSING taxpayers is a common factor in our revenue administration discouraging honest taxpayers and also keeping a large section of taxable population with taxable income...
Danger from food contamination growing
ACCORDING to news reports, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has made the disclosure that food-borne diseases kill an estimated two million people annually, including children...
Readers’ Forum
Promoting peace BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia obtained bails on two graft cases on Sunday and returned to her residence at Gulshan after three months, but...