Adoption of home solar systems growing
Dr. Tanvir Abir :Bangladesh, like many other countries, is grappling with the detrimental effects of rising fuel prices, including increased power cuts and a growing...
Editorial
Islam’s call to prayer is ringing out in more US cities
Leila Tarakji :Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast from mosques five...
Readers’ Voice
Power disruption I am writing to express my concern about the problem of electricity in our community. As you know, electricity is an essential resource...
Violence against children must stop
A family, or in a larger sense a society, that treats its children in an ill manner will never progress, because children are its future,...
Readers’ Voice
To the government of India Oh, poor Bangladesh, we never imagined that after fifty one years of independence which we received by the supreme sacrifice...
Bangladesh’s women rise to the challenge with big ideas for digital innovation
Sabah Moyeen :Initiatives like the ‘Digital Innovation Challenge for Women’ are transforming the tech landscape in Bangladesh. Pictured are the winners of this competition in...
Should we recoil from progress?
Dr. Shibli Ahmed Khan :The twenty-first century is purported to be the century of Asia. We see the signs of transformation in every direction. Almost...
Food security remains elusive with increase in cost of cultivation
CONTRARY to the government claim, Bangladesh has never been secured as far as the domestic food production is concerned, but it has become even more...
Govt must address challenges on way to Bangladesh’s outsourcing destinations
IN an era of globalisation and digital connectivity, countries around the world are vying to position themselves as prime outsourcing destinations. Among the emerging players...
Humayun Kabir: The humanitarian image of a career diplomat
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :It is indeed an honour to write about departed brilliant accomplished diplomat under whom this writer had the privilege to work in...
Modi’s US visit: A major diplomatic step or not!
Nilofar Suhrawardy :Notwithstanding the diplomatic importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit (June 20-24) from the Indian perspective, one is compelled to deliberate on...
Brace for floods in the north and northeast
BANGLADESH’S neighbour and ‘friend’ India is now giving it waters of Teesta. It always does during the monsoon. In the dry season when the farmers...