Cough syrup, deaths and Indian pharma
Jyotsna Mohan :A tragedy in Africa has once again opened the lid on pharma regulations in India. Gambia says 70 children have now died after...
Editorial
Teachers in transforming education
Dr Md Mahmudul Hassan :Transformation in learning and teaching methods is very important in the development and progression of education. It, in fact, refers to...
Ensure gas supply to save textile mills
Sixty percent of the country’s textile mills are at risk of closure due to the ongoing severe shortage of gas with the millers failing to...
Bangladesh is most climate change vulnerable
Global warming has advanced to the point where the question is no longer how to stop it, but to what extent it can be mitigated....
In remembrance of my late brother Aziz Misir
M Harunur Rashid :He left this mortal world on this day (October 23) in 2002. His actual name was Sirajul Islam and those who read...
Failure of social science as policy
Shiv Visvanathan :The word, crisis, has a deceptive normalcy to it. We apply it to institutions like the State, nation, bureaucracy to hide the fact...
How could a nation be so indifferent to huge casualties on roads and highways?
The government’s relevant authorities have miserably failed to bring the road traffic all across the country under a system of disciplined control. Only an insensitive...
Capital Dhaka getting hotter as ACs generate heat in atmosphere
Reliance on air conditioners for relief from the heat is creating a “vicious cycle” as the machines contribute to rising temperatures in the capital while...
Exit Liz Truss; Enter Lettuce
Dr Binoy Kampmark :British politics has revealed hidden depths, each one being sought as each prime minister succumbs. The announcement by Liz Truss that she...
Translating water research into practice
Prabin Rokaya :Hydrology and water resources have observed tremendous technical advances in the last few decades due to innovations in instrumentation, monitoring and modelling. Today,...
Our workers in Italy facing deportation is a great concern, but there are no jobs in the country
Nearly 20,000 Bangladeshi undocumented migrant workers in Italy are at risk of repatriation home by December. Several thousand Bangladeshis go to Italy every year. As...
Dengue persisting and this calls for round-the-year measures against the disease
Though the Health Minister Zahid Malik is telling us that adequate measures have been taken to contain the dengue outbreak this year, the ground reality...