Megaprojects exacerbate Ctg waterlogging
Though a number of initiatives have been taken over the years to address Chattogram city’s waterlogging problem, many of those have apparently gone down the...
Editorial
Fertility rate per woman is declining
Fataraz Zahan :Over the last two decades, the world has observed a declining population trend. Around two hundred years back, there were less than one...
Gorbachev and Glasnost
The Conversation : Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but those six years changed both...
Readers’ Voice
Keep the campus safe for students The university halls are now torture centre. Though, campus is the favorite place for students, students are being tortured...
Keep unlicensed drivers and unfit vehicles off the road
AS unfortunate as it is, Bangladesh is no stranger to road accidents, with news on such occurrences being embarrassingly frequent. Our roads and highways have...
Save environment by setting up eco-friendly brick kilns
It is very disconcerting to note that environmentally damaging brick kilns are being set up in the urban area. Besides, there is widespread allegation that...
Nazrul is being forgotten
ATM Nurun Nabi :Kazi Nazrul Islam is known as the rebel poet in Bengali literature and has been recognized as the National Poet of Bangladesh....
Our rivers are dying carelessly
Prof Dr Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :Plastic pollution in aquatic habitats is a significant environmental problem. It has severe influence on ecology putting aquatic species in...
Readers’ Voice
Unbearable megaphones, sound boxes Almost every night, teenagers rent high-volume sound boxes or megaphones, playing music at more than 120dB, and disregarding the elderly, sick,...
Heutagogy: Self-directed learning in the classroom
Prof Dr Md Mahmudul Hassan :There are three terms in educational system for proper learning outcomes. They are known as ‘Pedagogy’, ‘Andragogy’ and ‘Heutagogy’. ‘Pedagogy’...
Shifting gears to propel Bangladesh’s growth engine
Gaurav Nayyar and Siddharth Sharma :Bangladesh’s manufacturing miracle is much celebrated. Labor-intensive, export-oriented growth driven by the ready-made garments (RMG) industry has propelled Bangladesh’s recent...
Time now to show Myanmar its territories by applying force
Within a week’s duration it happened three times. First, on August 28, two mortar shells landed in Bangladeshi territory from Myanmar creating panic among the...