OPINION: Education and innovation
Waleed Rasheed Kalwar : Education and innovation are two sides of the same coin. One cannot exist without the other. The subtle interplay between the...
Editorial
Our fishermen still risk their lives on the high seas at the hands of criminals
Country’s fishermen on the high seas have to brave all sorts of dangers, even risking their lives, when they take to the seas for their...
Mindless filling of wetlands beside Dhaka City is unacceptable
Nobody seems to bother about Dhaka’s perennial problem of water logging. If the water retention capacity of water bodies is continuously filled up, where will...
The 52 years of criminal economy
A. R. Farrukh Ahamed : By born, no one is criminal. Some humans may be defined as criminals though they are not solely responsible for...
The only glimmer of hope in Sudan
Maria Maalouf :The outbreak of violence in Sudan last week, which is now simmering between the country’s two most powerful military leaders and their forces,...
Amid the delay in trial, Rana Plaza survivors, victims’ relatives lose their hopes of getting justice
The slow trial pace of the horrific Rana Plaza disaster that killed at least 1138 people, mostly apparel workers, and injured over 2000 in 2013...
Take precaution against the hazardous lightning
Increased number of deaths by lightning in recent days has become a great concern for the nation. The extremity of the heat of the summer...
Remembering Eid celebrations of our young age
Dr. Md. Shamsul Arefin : In our young age, we would eagerly wait for the new moon to be sighted, signaling the end of the...
Real cause of all our problems is economic
Aftab Ahmed Khanzada : Human history cannot be divided into ancient, medieval and modern periods. This division of history was created by medieval thinkers. According...
Eid-ul-Fitr: Share your happiness with the poor and the needy
THE nation is going to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the two great religious festivals for Muslims. Though it is often called the ‘lesser’ Eid unlike...
Child labour in all forms must be eliminated for a better Bangladesh
IT IS no new news for us in Bangladesh to know that Bangladesh children are subjected to the worst forms of child labour including commercial...
Private health service must be monitored effectively
That Bangladesh’s prevailing public healthcare system is in a very sorry state cannot be overemphasised, but due to absence of proper monitoring the country’s private...