Shipbuilding prospect: Check pollution, ensure workplace safety
With a $4b annual export earnings target in five years, the government has drafted a policy for the shipbuilding industry to provide a range of...
Editorial
Akbar Ali Khan who taught us how to speak for freedom
A. R. Farrukh Ahamed :‘The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage’ – this was uttered by a man sitting...
Bangladesh and India on strategic path
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :Bangladesh in South Asia has survived 50 years since the liberation with help of India which is sandwiched between two huge powers...
Climate change to cost Bangladesh $570m every year
It is alarming to learn from a World Bank report that because of climate change, cyclone-induced flooding could cause damage worth US$ 570 million in...
Dengue spreading alarmingly, measures needed to stop
This year the dengue outbreak has taken an alarming proportion. The infestation of this viral disease this year is much higher than the previous year....
Education journey of Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Dil Afrose Duetee :Education is probably the most vital tool to change one’s life. Children have a right to learn and right to education will...
Readers’ Voice
Make social media peaceful and safer We need a peaceful and safer society in order to survive in this physical world and in doing so...
Impacts of population explosion on air pollution
Professor Dr. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :Air is essential for the survival of all living creatures. The quality of the air we breathe greatly affects the...
Transfer order can’t be treated as punishment: SC
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in a verdict has ruled that a transfer order is an administrative order which cannot be challenged and...
Ensure biosafety to escape next pandemic
The export of potatoes is being disrupted as foreign countries do not want to take potatoes from our country due to the presence of harmful...
Prospect for leather industries in Bangladesh
Kazi Md. Wahidul Islam :At the very out set of human civilization it needs food, clothing and shelter. By hunting wild animal, they met up...
Neo-colonialism and autocracy: Two sides of a coin
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Colonial powers did not survive for centuries by force of arms alone. They brought with them different ideas and doctrines. According...