Eastern Europe Ukraine & The Nuclear Paradox
Robert Koehler :Somewhere out there in the geopolitical wilderness of Eastern Europe, two powerful beasts stalk each other. One of them is good. One of...
Editorial
Bureaucratic Elitism A Bar To Administrative Transparency
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Colonial legacy and Weberian concepts tend to block the sharpening of Bangladesh bureaucracy which has to meet the challenges of a...
Corporate tax cuts turn ‘eyewash’: DCCI wants to end harassment by tax officials
Top business leaders have been demanding the government to take steps to put an end to the harassment businesses face at the hands of VAT...
Beneficiaries of special programme left out tea garden workers
The government has recently started listing beneficiaries of a special programme to improve the lives and livelihoods of the country’s tea workers. It sounds good...
Unfair Recruitment An Ominous Sign Of Utter Frustration
Badrul Huda Sohel :In recent times, in addition to public examinations, repeated leaks of questions in government recruitment tests have given rise to new concerns....
Teleworking All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Baher Kamal :Now it comes to teleworking, the double-edged, relatively recent phenomenon imposed by COVID-19 lockdowns. On the one hand, it improves work-life balance, opportunities...
Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway again fall in time lag, cost escalation gap
Over four years have already gone by before the scheduled start of construction; the government’s authority concerned now moves to revise the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway...
Project to end single-use plastic is not ending
The Department of Environment (DoE) last year launched a project to stop the use of single-use plastic in 12 coastal districts. It has so far...
Pandemic Recovery Diasporas Are Needed More Than Ever
Mayumi Ozaki :Millions of South Asians live outside their home countries. They could be key to region’s pandemic recovery.The pandemic has created unprecedented economic difficulties...
Future Energy It Is Time To Grow Up
Dr. Paul j. Sullivan :We live in exciting and challenging times, and these times are going to get even more exciting, challenging, and amazing as...
Higher rice price may trigger bigger unrest
The government has cautioned that rice price will go up and announced that TCB trucks would sell rice at Tk 30 per kg to minimise...
Against shrinking global job workers must have trained skills
Bangladesh’s efforts to send workers to five countries have suffered a blow as those nations adopted restrictive measures before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Steps...