Shrinking Job Scope Graduates Are In Utter Despair
Dr. Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy :Every year a large number of students get graduation from colleges, institutes and universities in Bangladesh. Many of them step...
Editorial
Rohingya Situation Is Getting More Dangerous
Tony Waters :Part-2Providing safe havens to refugees may prevent war between home and host countries in the short term by permitting a “cooling off” period....
University students are central to a healthy democracy
Ashok Swain :Democracy, to survive the onslaught of ethnonationalism and for its health and well-being, needs to provide better and balanced governance. That can be...
Edible price hike without ministry’s knowledge
The New Nation reported on Saturday that traders have silently increased edible oil price by at least Tk 5-8 per liter packed bottle and it...
Urgent measures needed to limit Omicron spread
THE country reported 20 more Covid-linked deaths with 15,440 fresh cases in 24 hours. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the daily...
Rohingya Situation Is Getting More Dangerous
Tony Waters :Since Feb. 1, 2021, Myanmar’s peoples have looked inward, focused on the coup, the battles on the streets of Yangon and Mandalay, economic...
With Corruption No Development Is Possible
Md. Zillur Rahaman :Bangladesh’s position in the Corruption Perceptions Index, prepared by the Berlin-based international anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI), is disappointing. In that report,...
Lack of discipline among ministries
It’s now the job of the Ministry of Commerce to coordinate transit and connectivity affairs in line with the allocation of business; an inter-ministry meeting...
As air pollution is an existential threat, act now
Residents of the capital have inhaled clean air for only 38 days in the last six years. The alarming figures came up in a study...
Britain’s Identity War
Ravi Shankar Jayaram : “Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler/… If you think old England’s done…” – the lyrics of a popular war-time...
Climate Inaction, Injustice Worsened by Finance Fiasco
Jomo Kwame SundaramMany factors frustrate the international cooperation needed to address the looming global warming catastrophe. As most rich nations have largely abdicated responsibility, developing...
Universities are not for learning but for serving govt’s political interest
It’s very shocking for us hearing that a Dhaka University student was physically and mentally tortured after he failed to attend a programme of ruling...