Editorial

Masum Billah :Upazial administration was introduced by Hussain Muhammad Ershad most probably to strengthen the local government bodies and for taking the administration to the...

ALTHOUGH the kitchen market situation does not bother ministers and the bureaucracy the government leaders appear to be alert about the market situation this time...

THE government has taken a move to amend the Iodine Deficiency Disease Prevention Act (IDDP)-1989 to make the use of iodised salt mandatory in processed...

Dr Jamal Khan :(From previous issue)One, simultaneously, comes across a perceptible insufficiency of appreciation for and undertaking of the sociological aspects of management, change, growth,...

Joel Schlosberg :From a free market anti-capitalist perspective, Jeremy Rifkin’s account of “The Rise of Anti-Capitalism” [New York Times, March 15] gets it almost right....

Barrister Nazir Ahmed :Constitutionally a dual citizen (e.g. a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin) can become the Chief Justice of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh...

THE Governor of the Chinese Province of Yunnan’s Li Jiheng said that in his view Bangladesh would become a hot destination for global investment in...

WHILE government initiatives are considered too inadequate to address the water crisis of Dhaka city, a report published in a national Bangla daily on Saturday...

Downgrading performance About the Bangladesh cricket team’s performance in the Asian Cup and the ongoing T20 World Cup Cricket, Saurov Ganguly, former captain of the...

A NATIONAL English daily report estimates that a nexus of police and criminals, city corporation officials and political party cadres’ are extorting Tk 850 crore...

EXECUTION of the Ganges Barrage has been on hold for the last 40 years. The project is considered vitally important to save a large part...

Feed the hungry people first In our society, for years there has been going on a chronic habit of spending money lavishly for making programme...