Stop political killings, else the nation may suffer from further chaos
A NEWS item in an English daily on Monday reported a sudden rise in political killings identifying at least 24 persons who were killed in...
Editorial
Money laundering under the cover of machinery imports
SUDDENLY the import bills for December last increased by 20.05 percent ahead of the January 5 national elections compared with a 2.30 percent growth in...
Readers’ Forum
Indiscipline on bus routesOne of the main problems of Dhaka, a city of over one crore population, is inadequate transports and indiscipline on roads. In...
Killing two birds with one stone
Jonathan Power :Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine who lived 460-357 BC, concluded that diseases were naturally caused and were cured by natural remedies. Opium,...
Worries from Japan
Tom Plate :Try it, you might like it: A sense of proportion. Avoid the extreme cry of apocalypse now – or at least, of apocalypse...
The war we won and lost
Robert J. Samuelson :We are awash in retrospectives of the “War on Poverty,” launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon B. Johnson. A furious...
Readers’ Forum
Biofuels Biofuels can be an effective, environment-friendly and low-cost source of energy capable of replacing conventional fossil fuels mainly gasoline up to some extent. In...
Trends and challenges
Dr Maleeha Lodhi : At many international conferences I attended last year a number of themes resonated in deliberations of a world in profound but...
Thailand losing steam
Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker : Even as demonstrators were spreading across Bangkok, they were losing ground with a constituency whose support they badly need:...
US economy returning to shape
Neil Irwin : The United States is poised for its strongest year of economic growth since the recession began. Signposts for the economy are generally...
Corporal punishment of children is a serious matter
Prof. Murray A. Strauss : It was encouraging to read an article recently by Sir Frank Peters about the ill effects corporal punishment has on...
Plug growing incidents of tax dodging
A NEWS report yesterday said that the tax-payers dodged Tk 3,024 crore in the income tax category alone during the last two financial years (2010-11...