Govt must stand beside farmers facing fodder crisis in the north
ACUTE crisis of fodder in flood-affected areas in Brahmaputra, Teesta and Dharla Rivers’ basin in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts adds much to the woes of...
Editorial
Money launderers in RMG sector have robbed the nation’s future
In one of the biggest money laundering scams unearthed so far in the country, customs authorities have found that 33 readymade garment factories and buying...
Reasons behind Ctg port’s security lapse must be investigated thoroughly
Chattogram Port in recent months has experienced a spike in theft and piracy, endangering the brighter image it had earned with a whole slew of...
Quietly crushing a democracy: Millions on trial in Bangladesh
Atul Loke : From previous issue Just as Bangladesh was working to get its garment industry back on track after the pandemic disrupted global demand,...
Inequality and democracy
Joseph E Stiglitz : There has been much handwringing about the retreat of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in recent years – and for...
Quietly Crushing a Democracy: Millions on Trial in Bangladesh
Atul Loke : The most active rivals to the country’s ruling party face dozens, even hundreds, of court cases each, paralyzing the opposition as a...
Proper sanitation management
Md. Arafat Rahman : The process by which human waste and used water are recycled and reused is called the ‘Sanitation Value Chain’ or ‘Sanitation...
How could 55 kg gold be stolen amid the airport’s tight security?
Bangladesh has turned into a veritable land of thefts now. Banks are being looted one after another. Public funds are stolen from the mega projects...
DNCC men can’t spend taxpayers’ money to learn the use of fogging machine abroad
Four government officials including a ward councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation visited Germany August 17-23 for training at pulsFog, a prominent thermal fogger manufacturer;...
Economic transformation
Riaz Riazuddin : Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets described this long-term, complex structural transformation in terms of three simple shares of GDP of any country: agriculture,...
Gender difference in charity
Quazi Saleh Mustanzir : Who is more charitable- man or woman- is still a debatable issue. Researchers found that women are more charitable than men...
Authorities concerned must strengthen banks financial security
Cyber security is now a major area of concern for the banking industry, with repeated hacking attempts, phishing attacks, malware attacks, OTP bypassing, and exposure...