Gas, power crisis liable for sugar price hike
Amid the ongoing sugar crisis, the price of sugar produced by state-owned factories has been hiked by Tk 14. The maximum retail price of local...
Editorial
The Israel We Knew Is Gone
Thomas L. Friedman :Imagine you woke up after the 2024 U.S. presidential election and found that Donald Trump had been re-elected and chose Rudy Giuliani...
Full-scale war seems to be in the horizon
It seems to be interesting unfortunately to note that the pogrom of 1919 in Poland and Ukraine is being repeated in Ukraine now in the...
Readers’ Voice
Online gambling must be uprooted! Inadequacy of specific laws, absence of proper supervision and regulations for an online lottery ticket or scratch card buying-selling, sports-based...
Mongla Port authorities must stop dumping sands on farmers’ croplands
The Mongla Port authorities have declared war against the people of Banishanta union in Khulna’s Dacope upazila, as they are adamant to dump sand on...
Universities of the future must embrace multi-disciplinary studies
Shanti Jagannathan :Universities need to look beyond single-discipline learning and embrace knowledge that cuts across disciplines to resolve some daunting challenges. Universities have traditionally fostered...
Al-Qaeda, global terrorism and threat to democracy
M A Hossain :After World War II, the dollar becomes the strongest and only international trade currency. In the early 90s, the world started a...
Readers’ Voice
World edging recession The World Trade Organisation’s chief believes the world is heading towards a global recession due to multiple colliding crises and called for...
VAT collected from buyers should be paid
Around 22 per cent of business enterprises do not submit VAT returns though the number of total enterprises under VAT registration is 372,934 till August...
Jail Killing Day: Remembering Syed Nazrul Islam
M A Latif :Shaheed Syed Nazrul Islam, one of the architects of independent Bangladesh, is a veteran leader whose patriotism, martyrdom and glowing political life...
Readers’ Voice
Climate impact on learning If there is something the pandemic has taught us, it is that children cannot afford to learn online or lose precious...
Ministers’ role is to stop food adulteration, not saying only moral words
The Health Minister on Tuesday said food adulteration has increased alarmingly across the country, though as a member of the cabinet it is his role...