Pay heed to demand for reopening universities
A group of Dhaka University students are demanding the reopening of all the university campuses that remain closed from March last year due to Covid-19,...
Editorial
Coastal Embankments Need Crucial Sustainable Plan
Wares Ali Khan :‘The tidal water is rising. Everyone, come forward a little again. If you don’t head again, we can no longer be able...
Fake Medical Products The Growing Risk Need To Be Curbed
Richard Amalvy, Moustafa Mijiyawa, Greg Perry, Dr. Michel Sidibé :Imagine a sick child in a lower-income African country, suffering from a life-threatening condition and being...
Readers’ Voice
Counterfeit CurrencySeveral gangs of miscreants remain active in multiple approaches of fraudulence, tricks, and currency counterfeiting intending to deceive people letting their lives in great...
Equip people with knowledge and skills to minimise quake damages
ABOUT eight mild earthquakes jolted densely populated Bangladesh’s northeastern Sylhet region on Saturday and Sunday, leaving the people panicked and running out to streets to...
Climate War Role Of Islamic World
Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali :Countries signing up to commitments like the Paris climate accords should not be taken for granted that they are working...
From Hero to Zero? Bangladesh Ranks 3 Globally in Covid Related School Closures – UNICEF
Javed Hosein :With no clear plan for mass-scale vaccination in sight, Bangladesh ranks only behind Panama and El Salvador in terms of greatest number of...
The emphasis should be on tax base rather than higher tax rate
At pre-budget dialogues leading economists and business leaders have demanded corporate tax and duty cuts along with reduction of the value added tax (VAT) to...
Spread of LSD drug must be contained before it’s too late
The hallucinogenic drug called lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is being smuggled into Bangladesh from the Netherlands using the postal service for the last four years....
Sting Journalism Episode Of Rozina Islam
Prof. M Zahidul Haque :THE recent episode centering journalist Rozina Islam stirred the entire journalists’ community of Bangladesh and invoked massive protest and resentment among...
Commit To Quit Consumption Of Tobacco In The Pandemic
Dr. Md. Enamul Hoque :Every year on May 31 the “World No Tobacco Day” is observed globally to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic...
Readers’ Voice
Is Cinema On Coma? There were about 1,500 cinema halls in the country during the mid-eighties. This number has come down below 150 on account...