Editorial

EMPLOYING children in hazardous work had long been a contentious issue in Bangladesh. The National Child Labour Survey of 2020 survey of the Bangladesh Bureau...

Dr Matiur Rahman : “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds” is a book by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, first published in 2003. In this...

Greg Sargent : Whereas Trump, as president, largely failed to rebuild US manufacturing, Biden has presided over an explosion of manufacturing construction, including throughout red...

Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh : The entire world fights all forms of discrimination against others. All are against racism based on skin color, and many are...

IT is no new news that different wing organisations of ruling Awami League such as Chhatra League, Jubo League, take tolls from roadside vendors or...

ACCORDING to the Tax Justice Network (TJN) report, Bangladesh faces significant annual tax losses due to multinational companies shifting profits to tax havens abroad and...

Richard Gunderman MD, PhD :In 1944, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide”-literally, the killing of a people. A polyglot who could speak...

Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :About ten millions working people of Bangladesh are employed in 161 countries of the world. If the families below the poverty...

Human rights activists and organisations must actively protect individuals’ civil liberties in countries with poor human rights conditions. However, in Bangladesh, there are concerns about...

The striking secondary level school teachers’ demand for nationalisation of their jobs has to be seen sympathetically. They have been on strike for about two...

Nilofar Suhrawardy :If the video about atrocious and disgusting sexual assault of women in Manipur had not gone viral, the entire country and the rest...

Dr. Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy : Banking is expanding very rapidly in Bangladesh. People of our country were not that much aware of banking services...