Budgetary targets fail to address the new poor
The proposed budget for 2021-22 has a huge outlay of Tk 6,03,681 crore about one third of which will come in the form of deficit...
Editorial
UN doing its utmost for Rohingya refugees but Myanmar must face military challenge
The United Nations has urged the international community to step up and share responsibility noting that recent developments in Myanmar make the prospects of voluntary...
US Foreign Policy
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :There seems to be no doubt that the United States of America has been in cooperation with the State of Israel since...
Covid Crisis
Jehangir Hussain :The world is facing an unprecedented crisis since the covid pandemic struck 18 months or so ago. New virus strains and human toll...
New budget should address needs of the ‘new poor’
It is disheartening to know that the life and livelihood of more and more people have fallen below the poverty line due to the Covid-19...
Focus on enabling frontier districts to face pandemic
Amid the growing Covid-19 cases, health experts fear that Bangladesh’s frontier districts await a serious health crisis as most hospitals and health complexes there are...
Muhammad Ali Inspiration Against Apartheid Of All Time
Nairita Nahrin Barisha :Third June marks the fifth death anniversary of legendary sports man Muhammad Ali.Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., later widely known as Muhammad Ali...
Media Freedom Steps Taken By The Bangladesh Govt
Md. Saifullah :Freedom of thought and conscience and of speech is guaranteed as fundamental rights in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The...
Storm sewerage system should work to prevent water-logging in capital
We have a huge underground pipeline network in the city for efficient running of storm sewerage, but water logging has not disappeared. Media reports on...
Break rings of human traffickers to protect women, children
A transnational human trafficking racket, involving some Bangladeshis, has trafficked at least 500 young women and girls to India over the last five years and...
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...
Covid Pandemic Social Medicine & Public Health
Dr. Matiur Rahman & Shishir Reza :Social Medicine means an organized investigation of social, genetic, and environmental factors influencing human disease and disability and promotion...