Natural disasters promoting unplanned urbanisation
Jim Jarvie, Anna Brown :Asia is experiencing unprecedented urbanization – more than 750 million people live in urban areas, exceeding the combined population of the...
Editorial
Divesting from fossil fuels use in health sector
James Ayre :Is the healthcare industry morally obligated to divest from fossil fuels? Does an industry that purports to aim to do away with or...
Climate change complicates efforts to end poverty
Curt Carnemark :Climate change hits the poorest people the hardest, those living in vulnerable areas with the fewest resources to help them adapt or recover...
Gas cos must pay tax
NEWS report in a national daily on Tuesday said four major gas distribution companies have dodged tax payment of Tk 13,277 crore to the national...
Police must act responsibly and not look for political justification
A REPORT in a national daily on Tuesday said nine persons out of 15 victims of police shootouts over the past 26 days were innocent...
We condemn beheading Coptic Christians in Libya
EGYPT launched airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Libya on February 16 as it ‘seeks retribution’ for the barbaric filmed beheading of 21 Coptic Christians....
Readers’ Forum
Double standardThe western countries and their allies in the Middle East have closed their embassies in Sana, capital of Yemen, for the time being in...
Assessing risk within digital financial services
Jason Lamb, Sacha Polverini :As the availability and popularity of digital financial services (DFS) grows in an increasing number of developing countries, policy and decision...
Understanding social innovation in current context
Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson :Social enterprise was once a radical renewal movement within the third sector. Today, however, it’s not quite so straightforward....
Surely US Ambassador knows that no election is no democracy
THE newly appointed US Ambassador to Dhaka on Sunday assured the government of helping to protect democracy in Bangladesh from derailing. Envoy Marcia Stephens Bloom...
Lower duty on tea import bothering local growers
NEWS reports in the dailies say that Bangladesh’s tea growers have demanded a duty increase on import of tea by more than 25 percentage points...
Readers’ Forum
Labour attaches in Missions The observation of migration experts that Bangladesh missions abroad need experienced and proactive officers as labour attaches who will be tasked...