Readers’ Forum
Save Hockey Once, hockey was a very popular game in Bangladesh. Sports audiences swarmed to the stadiums all over the country to enjoy the league...
Editorial
Are we going to run out of fossil fuels?
Frank-Jürgen Richter :LET’S START off with a simple fact. The fact is so simple, yet so profound that though anyone reading this certainly already knows...
In memory of a medicine man
M.A. Jabbar :For the above title of my article, the respected readers perhaps may guess of whom I am going to write about. This is...
Green diplomacy
Deepti Mahajan Mittal :In the past, the country was listed amongst those with a high carbon and ecological footprints. But as the government seeks to...
Biswa Ijtema: Let God’s blessings fall upon the nation
THE three-day ‘Biswa Ijtema’ the second largest congregation of the Muslims, which is only next to the Hajj in Mecca begins at Tongi, in the...
How safe is GM Brinjal?
A REPORT in a local daily on Thursday said Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has started distributing saplings of the country’s first genetically modified (GM)...
Readers’ Forum
Hard to believeI am feeling very curious about the mental state of the members of the newly formed government. How are they adjusting to their...
The way we grew up…
Asha Iyer Kumar :Today’s children are a curious lot – hard to please, keen on competition, easily pestered and fabulously finicky. The shortest route to...
Where privilege and class count
Rahul Singh :I HAVE a “fix” I cannot do without. In fact, I have had it since I started working as a journalist some half...
The challenges of globalisation
Mohammad Mosaddek Hossain :Meeting the challenges and opportunities for proper globalization process between the developing and developed countries, this ultimately requires consideration of how to...
Bring business back to track
NEWS reports said the country’s top business leaders have urged the government to ensure socio-political stability to the nation to get the business and economic...
Closing sub-standard private medical colleges
MOHAMMAD Nasim, the new Health Minister has cancelled the primary approval of 12 private medical colleges, claiming ‘lapses’ in the approval process as the main...