Galloping trade imbalance needs to be held in check
Bangladesh’s trade deficit hit an all-time high at $22.8 billion in the last FY 2020-21 due to a rise in commodity prices in the global...
Editorial
Migrants suffer as new passports are not being issued for technical fault
Thousands of Bangladeshis mostly migrants run the risk of becoming undocumented due to delays in issuing new machine-readable passports (MRP) as the MRP server of...
Health Insurance To Reduce Poverty
Dr. Zafrullah ChowdhuryPart-II Special Gono Shasthya Insurance (public health insurance) for low-income working familiesFrom June 2021, Gonoshasthya Nogor hospital has introduced Special Gono Shasthya Insurance...
Opening Schools Should Be Priority No. 1 The pandemic has done immense harm to students. Getting kids back to class should top everyone’s agenda
Michael R. Bloomberg :Over the long course of the Covid-19 pandemic, one comforting fact has been that children have been at very little risk from...
State Responsibilities Protecting Rights Of Indigenous People
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :There are over 476 million indigenous peoples living in 90 countries across the world, accounting for 6.2 per cent of the...
Readers’ Voice
Protect The Environment Where existence of all animals, including humans, depends on nature, man is destroying it almost delibarately. It is necessary to stop the...
Raising deposit rates alone will not help combat inflation
MEDIA reports have said banks won’t be allowed to fix interest rates on deposits below 5 per cent; it must be at 5 per cent...
Bangladeshi workers may benefit as Saudi, Malaysian economies are reopening
The government of Saudi Arabia will begin accepting vaccinated foreigners wanting to make the umrah pilgrimage after 18 months of keeping the border sealed to...
Readers’ Voice
Neglected North Bengal According to the latest BBS survey, North Bengal is the most poverty prone region in the country. Five out of 10 such...
Israel-Palestine Two State Solution Only Way To Peace
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :The conflict between Israel and Palestinian has divided the world but China’s pragmatic stand recently is commendable indeed while the stand by...
Health Insurance To Reduce Poverty
Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury :Expensive medical treatment, wrong treatment and poverty in BangladeshBangladesh has the highest OOP (Out of Pocket Expenses) in Asia. Extremely high prize...
Vaccine shortages to cause economic woes linger
Bangladesh’s economy may continue to suffer under the Covid-19 pandemic throughout the current fiscal year (2021-2022) due to vaccine shortages and the government’s incapability to...