Readers’ Forum
Reintroduce inter-district football tourney The Inter-district Football, the Office League, the Independence Cup, the National Football and the Aga Khan Gold Cup Football Tournaments once featured...
Editorial
Climate change may induce violence
Sandy Dechert :Have you ever thought that society might be a bit rougher at the edges, and interpersonal and intergroup conflict more frequent, in the...
All cannot win the race
Dr Ahmed Mokhtar :AMID A cautious optimism, Cairo hosted last week the second meeting of the tripartite committee, which is responsible for studying the situation...
The Ebola story doesn’t smell right
Paul Craig Roberts :Should you be concerned about Ebola or is this simply overblown fear-mongering masquerading as news?The federal government has announced that thousands of...
Developing entrepreneurs for agro-industries
WITH massive urbanization and industrialization being part of modern society since the the Industrial Revolution in England, the primitive agro-based society of the past slowly...
Misuse of CSR for personal gains
CORPORATE Social Responsibility (CSR) activities carried by the businesses are meant for the benefits of the society. But the CSR expenditure of the state-owned banks...
Readers’ Forum
A forgotten legend singer Folk-song legend Abbas Uddin Ahmad was born on October 27, 1901 in Tufanganj Sub-division of Cooch Bihar district (now in India)....
Of intellectual property
Thomas L. Knapp :I came late to the news of Twitpic’s impending (and thankfully partial) closure and even later to an explanation for it. My...
Current trends in human capital development
Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain :(From previous issue)Moreover, Boninelli (2004) stated that the HR service delivery must change from the current face-to-face and manually intensive processes to...
Gaining strategic benefits over space travel
Allan Jacob :STARTING SMALL and creating big on a midget budget is now the stuff of reality. Dreams of sighting extraterrestrials, of humans lapping up...
Ministers can’t encourage investment: Sharing commission will not do
THE government is going to empower ministers with the authority of approving investment projects costing up to Tk 25 crore under the annual development programme...
Mismanagement of Holy Family is awesome and must be remedied
HOW an administrative inefficiency can turn a reputed hospital into a wasteland could be exemplified by the Holy Family Hospital. Despite having all facilities and...