Private health service must be brought under strict monitoring
That the public healthcare system in Bangladesh is in a very sorry state of this there is no doubt, but due to absence of proper...
Editorial
A city playground: Once struggling to survive, now full of life
Once a decaying playground in the city’s Lalbagh area, Dhaka South City Corporation completely maneuvered the garbage-dumping Hazi Abdul Alim Playground into a green community...
John F Kennedy as a Writer
Jehangir Hussain :‘Profiles in Courage’ is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity of eight senators of the United States....
National Integrity Strategy Promote Good Governance, Prevent Corruption
Md. Abdul Jalil :The National Integrity Strategy (NIS) is a comprehensive set of goals, strategies, and action plans aimed at increasing the level of independence...
Can’t we stop deaths from reckless driving?
Sunday’s bus accident that killed 11 people and injured 25 others in Barishal due to reckless driving is not isolated or different from many other...
Government must ensure fair price of products for the farmers
Country’s rice consumers have been paying higher prices for rice in the market but farmers do not get fair prices – often they sell paddy...
Shopping with Mobile Pay New Reality in Consumer Behaviour
Faruk Ahmed :The coronavirus outbreak is prompting second thoughts about reaching for cash. It is changing consumers’ shopping behavior quickly. Luckily people in Bangladesh have...
Bangladesh Economy From Basket Case to Phenomenal Success
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :Bangladesh celebrated fifty years last year in March having achieved phenomenal success without having a basket case of the United States of...
Readers’ Voice
Be Humane and Sympathise Ever since Russia attacked Ukraine, western countries and commentators have been up in arms about it. My question to these people...
Police are not to do whatever government want them to do
The former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque struck the right note when he said that neither the political power nor bureaucracy wants a change in the...
Is the claim of self-sufficiency in food logical?
Even though the government often claims that Bangladesh has attained the production of food grains, especially paddy, we continue to import a large quantity of...
Rights & Justice States Obligated to Uphold Human Value
A.T.M. Nurun Nabi :A state is known by the rights it maintains, says Professor Harold Laski. The state ought to guarantee to individuals the enjoyment...