Manufacturers can’t be given free hand in pricing all drugs
IT is really astounding to know that the relevant authorities fix only 2.3 per cent of the total medicines in Bangladesh leaving the rest to...
Editorial
Fight against inflation just not an economic battle
Dr Matiur Rahman : Rahim, a 45-year-old labourer in Dhaka, is the sole breadwinner for his family of five. With the recent surge in food...
Soft skills: A challenge for development
Md Bayazid Khan : The most relevant as well as burning question for building a country developed is — does it need development in multifarious...
Promotion to appease may bring chaos in police administration
Media reports have said that a proposal to promote 290 officers is being considered to ‘alleviate frustration’ among numerous police cadre officials without corresponding vacant...
Readers’ Voice
Advantages of palm oil tree plantation In recent years, more and more people are being killed by lightning. Government has planned to reduce such deaths...
Answer for ‘little to no emissions’
Prof Dr Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder : The 21st of September every year is observed as “Zero Emissions Day” with the purpose of ‘giving our planet...
World leadership at G-20 summit
Motaher Hossain : The much-awaited G-20 summit was held in India. In addition to G-20 member countries, the interest of third world countries including Bangladesh...
Readers’ Voice
Belai Beel under threat of existence A national daily has recently published a report on Belai Beel, a vast water body in Gazipur, saying the...
Cops in robbing man speaks to overall law and order situation in the country
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch has arrested five people, including two suspended police constables, in connection with robbing a man of Tk 20 lakh...
The earth’s journey to a boiling era
Syed Faruk Hossain : Temperatures hit record highs in the most countries. Global warming has gone a step further and has now become global boiling....
The fraught history of India and the Khalistan movement
Reeta Tremblay : The Indian government has warned its citizens living in Canada to exercise “extreme caution” due to a “deteriorating security environment” in the...
Waterlogging: Govt must answer for four deaths by electrocution
Four people, including three of a family, died after being electrocuted in the capital’s Mirpur on Thursday night as they came into contact with a...