Cumulative efforts necessary to address the challenges of human trafficking
Efforts to combat human trafficking need to be coordinated both in cyberspace and the real world, since the menace has fastened onto the internet and...
Editorial
Safety of tourists needed to boost the industry
We often hear about tourists meeting fatal deaths in Bangladesh. If we exclude the 11 tragic deaths in a tourist microbus at Mirsharai, Chattogram, a...
Safe internet for children is a shared responsibility
Wares Ali Khan :Bangladesh is marching at a faster pace in the fast-changing world keeping the tempo towards the arena of ICT and digitization being...
Press and courts
A.G. Noorani :THERE is no doubt that it is an uneasy relationship. But they – the press and the judiciary – badly need each other...
Readers’ Voice
Unfortunate Sri Lanka crisis Right now, there have been various reports of current economic crises in Sri Lanka. The people of Sri Lanka have been...
Credit growth in private sector will raise import payment
Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh accelerated to a four-year high of 13.66 per cent last fiscal year from what was in the preceding year....
Irregularities, corruption — a major challenge for development
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Among the ministries and departments in the country, the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, LGED, Directorate of Health, WASA, Titas...
World of hunger
Chinmay Prasun Biswas :“We have terrible hunger here.” This sentence was uttered by a coachman of a horse-drawn carriage in a story Baire (Outside) by...
Readers’ Voice
Education for all A person without education is like a bird without wings, a person without education is not blind, but his eyes do not...
Govt must fill up the vacant post in urban healthcare centres for better service delivery
Urban healthcare centres, run by the local government bodies, are failing to provide even the basic reproductive health and nutrition services due to a lack...
Readers’ Voice
Leaving rubbish on roads Recently the city corporation has done a very good job by repairing the streets and constructing new drains and footpaths in...
Mental health — an issue less attended in Bangladesh
Nazia Wahab :According to a recent news paper report, a student had died after falling from university building in Dhaka’s Green Road area. University authorities...