Capacity building in global healthcare services
Martin Finnegan :Search online for the role of for-profit organizations in health care and you’ll find millions of results, including an abundance of studies, conferences...
Editorial
Topping in the negative list!
Recently, I was reading a survey report carried out by a website ‘Sleeping at Airports’ which classified 10 worst airports of the world having dirty...
Be a go-getter, not a job getter
Christopher Shea :Nobel Peace Prize winner and microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus is a champion of big ideas and small loans.Muhammad Yunus, the founding father of...
Waqf properties fraudulently sold by vested interests
MOST of the waqf land property which had been endowed for supporting the poor and underprivileged sections now exists only on paper as the lion’s...
Bangladesh tops the climate risk list
A UK based research organization Maplecroft has designated Bangladesh as the Number One climate vulnerable country followed by two other African countries. Quoting Maplecroft, a...
Dhaka City now muggers’ heaven
WHO blames police for not performing their duties sincerely? The people who oppose the regime and failed to find out any good deed of the...
Converting the adolescents into human capital
NO schooling, no education, no gainful occupation — all these have distanced away the off-school aged adolescents from participating in the mainstream development paths of...
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...
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...