Rice imports only serve the interest of vested quarters but hit the farmers hard
THE government has started importing rice amid continued refusal of local millers to supply the staple despite legal obligation. The decision to import rice in...
Editorial
Education Post-Covid World Needs Redesigning
Alaul Alam :It is certain that someday the world will be free from the dreadful grip of Covid-19. History says that no pandemic can reign...
Legal Remedies Malpractice With Mental Patients
Very recently, a Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim was admitted to Mind Aid Hospital in the capital’s Adabar area for treatment of his...
Globalisation Regional Trade Will Drive The Next Phase
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem :The coronavirus continues to redefine how the world stays connected and has triggered an existential moment for free trade and globalisation.In...
Farmers should be included in govt food procurement drive
FARMERS who receive agricultural loans should be included in the government’s food procurement drive on priority basis, a study report recommended. The smallholder farmers, who...
Readers’ Voice
‘Woman’ In The Oxford Dictionary The word ‘woman’ had been represented with inferior, discriminatory, derogatory and offensive remarks in the dictionary earlier. Recently a massive...
Child Abuse Lack In Integral Approach
Wares Ali Khan :Hundreds of thousands of children around the country have been experiencing increasing threats to their safety and wellbeing – including mistreatment, gender-based...
Dhaka’s Air How Much Has Covid-19 Improved The Quality?
Professor Dr. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :The Economist’s Intelligence Unit (EIU) publishes a list of uninhabitable cities every year and sadly in 2019 Dhaka was identified...
Dhaka-Sylhet 4-lane project must complete in time
THE impasse over the financing of the Dhaka-Sylhet four-lane project is now over as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has given its consent to provide...
HIV increasing rate alarming in city: Don’t keep on sleeping
OVER one-third of the total HIV positive people live in Dhaka, the highest among 23 high-risk districts of the country which are under surveillance. The...
Mask Must Not Be Ignored In This Winter
Majhar Mannan :Winter is knocking the country with the warning of an increased infection rate of Covid-19. Therefore, the cabinet meeting just held on the...
New Curriculum Significant Areas Of Change In The Offing
Masum Billah :Usuallyin in every ten years a country changes its curriculum. Our current curriculum was developed in 2012 and as per this account we...