Readers’ Voice
Unsafe level crossing Death and injury due to being hit or cut by a moving train is a regular occurrence. Every year more than a...
Editorial
Tigers’ exit from Asia Cup leaves room for serious introspection
The immature exit of the Bangladesh national cricket team from the Asia Cup with very poor performance broke the hearts of millions of fans at...
Readers’ Voice
Solve Dhaka’s Traffic Congestion Traffic congestion has increased in the capital Dhaka in line with its growing population. Sometimes, it takes about an hour to...
Drought increasing worldwide
Md. Arafat Rahman :The chronic deficit in water supply is termed drought. A drought can last for a month or even a year. Drought conditions...
Ecological significance of Padma Bridge
Prof. Dr. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :One of the present government’s greatest accomplishments is the Padma Bridge. Every source of pollution in the area has decreased...
You can’t expect the corrupt will root out corruption
It is not surprising to know that around 70.9% of Bangladesh households have had to pay bribes to get government services in various sectors in...
Population control or punishing the victim?
Sushant Kumar :The ghost of population control was resurrected after the Assam and the draft U.P Population bills made the headlines last year. It reinvigorated...
Readers’ Voice
Private healthcare centers should be under proper control! Ensuring access to necessary healthcare is one of the basic rights of a citizen. Due to the...
Enforced disappearances must be stopped in Bangladesh
Rights organisation Mother’s call (Mayer Dak), a network of families of victims of enforced disappearances, on Tuesday reiterated its call for an independent commission to...
How France underdevelops Africa
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most...
Transformation in basic education is inevitable
Md Bayazid Khan :Today’s world is not like a bed of roses. People are to face a variety of natural and man made calamities nowadays....
Health risk of Bangladesh migrant workers
Lt Col Nazmul Huda Khan :Bangladesh has emerged as a major source of migrant workforce and accounted for around 12 million migrant workers since 1976...