Readers’ Voice
Help the flood victims to survive Many of the flood-hit people are unable to return home from temporary shelters as their houses were badly damaged....
Editorial
Load-shedding is back: Can we get ourselves out of this crisis soon?
Even though there are legitimate concerns regarding the global energy market, which have led to energy shocks in Bangladesh, the government’s mismanagement and poor planning...
Hardinge Bridge still a wonder of railway engineering
ATM Nurun Nabi :Hardinge Bridge, a steel railway bridge on the River Padma at Paksey, the headquarters of the country’s largest railway division, is a...
Financial impatience across the globe
Karolina Lempert, PhD :I have spent most of my career so far investigating one phenomenon: the tendency for people to prefer smaller, sooner rewards over...
Readers’ Voice
Aggression brings no glory My heart sinks to a low whenever I read about corporal punishment to children. The feeling was no different recently when...
Excess to healthcare for low-income people will be harder as drug prices to go up
Prices of 53 essential drug brands of 20 generics used in primary healthcare will go up from this month with the government allowing an increase...
Take measures against the menacing dengue
Mosquito-borne dengue has re-emerged in the capital Dhaka, with the onset of the monsoon. In the first 15 days of this month, 521 people were...
Populism in Asia is more robust than in Europe
Ashok Swain :Gulf News Special The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom Donald Trump had once described as ‘Britain’s Trump,’ has been forced to resign...
Faster growing at socio-economic and demographic fronts: India or Bangladesh?
Ishika Jaiswal & Dr. Bimal Jaiswal :Countercurrents.org India and Bangladesh are the two exceptional economies in South Asian region. Both the nations have number of...
Readers’ Voice
North Bengal is neglected North Bengal is the most poverty prone region in the country. Five out of 10 such districts are in Rangpur division....
Emotional well-being: Positive intervention needed
Wares Ali Khan :Financial crunch, familial crisis, social diversion and isolation, rapid urbanization, the gap in the fulfillment of preferred expectations, and most importantly, the...
Sri Lanka, a cautionary tale for South Asian governments
Mani Shankar Aiyar :When I first met Mahinda Rajapaksa at a conference of women panchayat members at Avdhash Kaushal’s training institute in Dehradun in the...