Air pollution claims around 80,000 lives a year: WB
Air pollution is killing around 80,000 people every year in Bangladesh by causing respiratory problems as well as depression, and wiping out around 4 per...
Editorial
Achieving SDG not possible without involving persons with disability in the dev work
Three out of four children with disabilities are out of the secondary school system, while 60 per cent do not attend conventional primary schools. According...
Rooftop gardening and environmental sustainability
Dr Matiur Rahman and Shishir Reza :Urbanization is one of the most transformative trends of the 21st century. Cities are the main force behind sustainable...
Extra curricular activities for future development
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Extracurricular activities (ECAs) can denote anything we do out of our regular education activities. We are not awarded school credits for...
Reason for buying rice at higher prices from Vietnam must be explained
Although the government claims that Bangladesh is self-sufficient in food, a significant amount of rice and wheat have to be imported every year. But, why...
What next for troubled cryptocurrencies?
Paul Krugman :Recent events have made clear the need to regulate crypto, an industry that grew from nothing to a $3 trillion market capitalization a...
Israel’s nuclear weapons are greatest threat to Middle East
Dr Ramzy Baroud :As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments...
The present brutal way of life cannot be ours!
The society of Bangladesh is getting increasingly cruel and devoid of any human values with kindness and compassion fast disappearing from us as human beings....
35 corrupt railway projects are plagued with huge cost escalation
Bangladesh Railway is implementing 35 projects to expand its services, but none of them would be completed on time, raising questions about its capability in...
Isn’t this an ethical defeat or a political trick?
Dr. Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy :Politics, political debates and elections are very common in Bangladesh. Every conscious person takes interest and has to take part...
What if ordinary people ruled?
Atle Hetland :I have recently written a couple of articles about ‘meritocracy’, that educated people rule, in most countries and indeed in Europe. They give...
Readers’ Voice
NATO is out of date and shape After the Second World War, two eminent word powers emerged with opposite ideologies. One began preaching democratic theories...