Groundwater discharge must not exceed recharge
Groundwater is a precious mineral as important as life and livelihood. Around 80 per cent people of Bangladesh depend on groundwater. Bangladesh along with China,...
Editorial
Dahaka’s Polluted Air Concern Among City Dwellers Mounting
Mozidur Rahman Biswas :Dhaka’s air is once again the world’s most polluted as the capital’s air quality index (AQI) was lastly recorded at 269 at...
Saudi FM’s Visit Dhaka-Riyadh Relation In New Height
Julia Alam :Arab News, one of the most influential news and views outlets in the Middle East wrote it as the first political consultation between...
Tribute to President Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed
Sir Frank Peters :I was deeply saddened to read about the passing of Former President and Chief Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed. It wasn’t the kind of...
World Water Day Access To Potable Water Still Not Assured
Dr. Muhammad Badrul Hasan ;It is hard to believe that in the midst of the technological advancement of the 21st century, around 61 million people...
Faulty design the cause of frequent launch capsize
A passenger launch on Sunday capsized in Shitalakkhya River when a large cargo vessel hit, leaving eight passengers killed and many missing. Like the previous...
Stop mollycoddling market manipulators
It happens to be an opportunity for Bangladeshi policymakers to cite price hikes in the global market as the logic of increasing prices in the...
Journalism & Truth Telling in Wartime
Rob Okun :Brent Renaud. Marina Ovsyannikova. One a US filmmaker killed by Russian troops on March 13 while working on a documentary about refugees. The...
Realism Must Guide Our Reaction to Russia’s Invasion
Tanner Greer :The Russian invasion of Ukraine has transformed the face of global geopolitics. Two weeks ago, the West stood distracted, uncertain and divided; now...
Experts warn of economic fallout from Russia-Ukraine war
Just as Bangladesh’s economy was sailing gradually to make a turnaround from the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war has suddenly emerged as a major obstacle standing...
Loss of lives and limbs to road crashes sees no end
It is really hard to find a day without any road mishap and casualties in Bangladesh which carries a legacy of loss of lives and...
How the Syrian civil war moved to Ukraine Sinem Cengiz
Arab News :As the world has become “a single country” in the past century, a crisis in any one state becomes a matter of grave...