Brokers should not be allowed to cheat
THE Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment has issued an alert for Italy-bound Bangladeshi workers not to make any deal with middlemen to go...
Editorial
Unscrupulous profit-mongers cannot deal our `right to food` for business
THOUGH Bangladesh is now self-sufficient in food, people are worried about scarcity of safe food as the quality of food is deteriorating gradually. Different government...
Weak vigilance at airport helps addictive drug `ice` to enter the country
A BANGLADESHI national in Malaysia has been smuggling the highly addictive drug “Ice,” also known as “Crystal Meth,” to Bangladesh for years through a handful...
Reversing The Rohingya Crisis
Fairuz Ahmed :“This is a crisis without a quick fix that could take years to resolve unless there are concerted efforts to address its root...
Power Imbalances In Global Supply Chains
Trade isn’t all about tariffs or taxes, as Covid-19 has shown.From fresh produce to toilet paper to bicycles, the pandemic has disrupted the complex supply...
People are helpless when public offices remain indifferent to public health
THE government’s zero-tolerance policy ‘no mask, no entry’ for public offices does not affect and explicitly ignored, posing the risk of spreading contagion in the...
Job Market Youth’s Expectations & Self-Employment
Though it is very difficult to get an accurate survey on the unemployment rate in Bangladesh, but it can be said with certainty that unemployment...
Remote Learning A Challenge For All Involved
Shortly after the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic caused schools in the UAE to shift their activities to the virtual sphere, my employer announced that the...
Nobody is ready to listen to experts for improving city`s traffic system
CITY traffic system is in total disarray said a report in a national daily mainly blaming indiscipline parking and haphazard pedestrians’ road crossing as well...
Simplify the Bonded Warehouse policy
IT is high time to simplify the existing Bonded Warehouse (BWH) policy for export diversification and reduction of dependency on a single sector, experts and...
Default Loans Big Headache For Banks
Alarmingly it has been observed that the prevailing Covid-19 hit economy has faced a number of new challenges i.e. hefty borrowing from the banking system...
French Episode The Dilemma Of Western Modernity
Conventionally “modernity” is a European concept and derived from normative European philosophy. Probably modernity is one of the most influential concepts in the human history...