Digital gambling must be checked
Gambling on digital platforms has become rampant across the country amid the emergence of mobile financial services (MFS) as an easy and primary tool to...
Editorial
The new world disorder
Richard Haas : There is an old Soviet joke in which a journalist asks the General Secretary of the Communist Party to assess the country’s...
Bangladesh Bank in hands of inept people cannot deliver
That the serving governor of Bangladesh Bank, Abdur Rauf Talukdar, has been placed at the grade ‘D’ as a governor by the Global Finance Magazine...
Sand extraction from rivers must be planned, scientific
In violation of the law, influential individuals within local communities are unlawfully removing sand from numerous river and coastal locations across the nation, causing harm...
Protect everyone’s health every day
Prof Dr Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder : Environmental health is one of the broadest fields within public health because of the myriad of ways external forces...
Connectivity with next-door neighbors
Dr Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy : Recently the geopolitics and geographical location of Bangladesh is a widely discussed issue. Even regionally the geographical location of...
Time and cost overrun in infrastructure projects
Shirin Sharmin : Infrastructure project delays and cost overrun are now a major worry since they have a direct impact on the national exchequer, taxpayers’...
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...
Dhaka Mohanagar Shishu Hospital shutdown is just an example of wasting resources
The inpatient services at the Dhaka South City Corporation’s only hospital dedicated for children – Dhaka Mohanagar Shishu Hospital – remain shut since July amidst...
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...