Impeachment of Judges Bill : Progressive or regressive?
A. Mannan :The said Bill has already been approved by the Cabinet and is awaiting processing in Parliament to pass, as an amendment to Article...
Editorial
Unfortunately ACC lost people’s confidence
THE statutory anti-graft watchdog, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), now appears to be a machinery to save corruption of the influential section of the ruling class...
True freedom fighters will not like to be used for partisan politics
The freedom fighters of Bangladesh are those who fought with arms to struggle for the independence of Bangladesh. This is what the definition of freedom...
Scale down volume of non-performing loans
DEFICIENCY of corporate governance caused scams at some state-owned commercial and specialised banks leaving an adverse impact on the country’s financial stability. Due to the...
Too many OSD Doctors – a bad example
IT was reported in a national daily that instead of engaging at various upazila level hospitals the government has made 1,647 newly recruited Doctors OSDs...
The Berlin-Kremlin nexus
M N Hebbar :SENIOR OFFICIALS at Berlin’s chancellery chuckle when they recall the anecdote in Moscow when Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin...
e-commerce — not an unmixed business option
Maniraj Singh Juneja :e-commerce is trending but what seems like a “low-investment-fast-growth” business idea to entrepreneurs might not be an accurate assumption. Treat this not...
Making better use of the blue economy
BANGLADESH is willing to work and move together with a partnership to create a blue economy to secure sustainable development among the littoral states of...
Recurring sewage horror
WASA officials, as reported in the press on Monday, have claimed that the sewerage system developed by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority decades back...
Readers’ Forum
Beheading another journalist! The leaders (of the movement) for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria released off late their second VDO beheading another US citizen....
There must have a strategy to usher in real change
Jonathan Power :Violence should have had its day. Look at its non-achievements: The US/British/French invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. The Arab Spring upheavals. And...
Ensuring sustainable development
Zoglul Husain :Over the last two decades Bangladesh, in terms of development, has been making steady and remarkable progress. It has maintained both steady economic...