Why will not all school students get free textbooks on New Year’s Day
For decades, children started their new school year with the smell of freshly printed textbooks, but it may not happen for all pre-primary and secondary...
Editorial
High yield seeds could address food shortages
Rahab Munene’s shoe selling business crumbled at the height of COVID-19 in 2020. She traded the enterprise for a mobile grocery along the Thika Superhighway,...
The looming threat of quakes in Bangladesh
Jehangir Hussain :Bangladesh needs to pay greater attention to protect itself from the looming threat of quake. The authorities need to change their indifference to...
A Truly Golden Jubilee
Sehreen Selim Ripon : The 16th December is regarded as the greatest day for all people of Bangladesh. It is a day of pride, the...
Search committee for EC without a law is misleading
A newspaper report says President Abdul Hamid will start a dialogue with registered political parties next week to discuss issues relating to the reconstitution of...
Keeping on track of democracy and human rights
According to a report published in a national daily on Tuesday, the British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson, Ambassador of Sweden Alexandra Berg...
Readers’ Voice
Rehabilitate street children Today’s children are tomorrow’s future. The number of street children in this country is constantly increasing at an alarming rate. The number...
Stopping the for-profit pandemic
Andrés Constantin :It has been less than two years since phrases like “flatten the curve”, “contact tracing”, “social distancing” and many others related to the...
Health sector: Needs visionary outlook
Dr. Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy :The current health structure prevailing in Bangladesh seems alright. Since last fifty years we have established public medical centers and...
Make NBR more efficient in tax collection
A report published in this newspaper on Tuesday pointed out that wrong tax assessment by revenue officials, who don’t have enough training and expertise, is...
Digital Revolution
Majhar Mannan :A country can only be called a digital country when the country becomes e-state and all the activities of the country are conducted...
Joe Biden’s growing foreign policy quandary Maria Maalouf
Arab News : As US President Joe Biden nears 11 months in the White House, two views have emerged of his administration’s foreign policy.The first...