Smokers
Jennie Lyn Reyes :While the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated public health to a top priority in every country in the world, it has left many...
Editorial
Juvenile Delinquency
Majhar Mannan :There has been an alarming rise in cases of juvenile delinquency in Bangladesh. Crime by adolescent is simultaneously on the rise too. The...
Rising unemployment should be deeply worrying but not to our government
WE always observe the government has a tendency to give incentives to export. The government has proved to have no imagination to create jobs for...
Environment should have the priority in considering power plants
THE Power Division will soon seek suggestions from the Prime Minister about the fate of under-construction and proposed 23 coal-fired power plant projects. The widening...
Corporal Punishment Scotland Bans Child Abuse
Sir Frank Peters :Scotland has given a thistle sting to Britain’s four-nation membership by becoming the first to outlaw corporal punishment to its children nationwide...
Assignment A New Addition To Secondary Education
Masum Billah :In order to avoid health risk the government stopped the annual examination for the students of grade six to ten and they have...
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...
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...
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...
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...