Moving to take action on girls’ rights
Alexandra Makaroff :Globally, 1 in 5 girls around the world is denied an education. Plan International’s Because I am a Girl campaign aims to directly...
Editorial
No place like home
P. G. Bhaskar :There are chaps who think nothing of calling in the packers and pushing off to another country. There, they quickly settle in...
Readers’ Forum
Improving law & order :Almost every day news of macabre incidents reach us. Dead bodies are being recovered from rivers, ponds, septic tanks, ditches, members...
Youths must be dreamers
FORMER Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam has asked the youths of Bangladesh to be the captor of problems and defeat the problems to succeed....
DU should rethink its admission rules
DHAKA University has decided to allow only the freshly passed HSC candidates to sit for admission tests from 2015 academic session. “Aspirants who fail to...
Readers’ Forum
Promoting soccer UNICEF’s goodwill Ambassador Sachin Tendulkar came to Dhaka on Tuesday at the invitation of a former cricket franchise of Bangladesh and returned home...
Ebola : The pandemic panic
Mahir Ali :Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), issued an unusually stark warning this week, declaring: “I have never seen a...
Too strong economy is itself a threat
Harold Meyerson :I am a fan, as a number of my columns attest, of Germany’s worker empowerment. By requiring corporations to divide their boards evenly...
Has micro-finance lost its mission?
Ariel Schwartz :It’s been 20 years since Muhammad Yunus won the World Food Prize for his work pioneering the concept of microfinance-the practice of providing...
Good hygienic sense prevents diseases
N.S.M Muzzammel Huq :During the recent past, Bangladesh has made commendable success in social development sectors. This success speaks of Bangladesh’s sincere commitments of fulfilling...
Costly delay in execution of 4-lane Dhaka-Ctg highway
THE parliamentary standing committee on Road Transports And Bridges Ministry has expressed its concern over the delay of upgrading Dhaka-Chittagong highway into four lanes. The...
Under a subservient EC democracy becomes unstable
THE name ‘Pakistan’ has become synonymous with volatile politics, military influence, unstable democracy, fundamentalism and a historically anti-democratic stance. Lacs of people made supreme sacrifices...