Our medical waste management also among the lowest in South Asia
ONLY 11% of healthcare waste was treated with segregation in Bangladesh in 2019, according to a joint report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and...
Editorial
Unprotected Sundarbans gradually losing vigor to protect us
VEGETATION in many parts of Sundarbans is in conundrum due to uneven practice of Golpata collection. Golpata is a trunkless palm tree, in which leaves...
Victory Day From A Foreigner’s Perspective
Sir Frank Peters :As 2020 draws to a close, we look back with disappointment, sorrow and grief thrust upon us by the Coronavirus Covid-19.We lament...
Nutrition Deficiency Consolidated Initiative Should Be Taken
Wares Ali Khan :Though in the past few decades, there was a shortage of required amounts of food in Bangladesh, but the country has now...
Universal Pension Scheme Reality & Possibility In Bangladesh
Pension is an important issue in the life of every employee that is awarded to him after retiring from the job. Someone retire voluntarily and...
Dispute over illegal allotment of shops
IT is heartening to know that 911 illegal shops have been demolished from the illegal portion of Fulbaria Super Market- 2 in the capital’s Gutistan...
Migrants failing to repay the debts must be given time
AS much as 13 per cent of Bangladeshis who went abroad for work after taking loans by mortgaging properties between 2015 and 2018 have lost...
Catastrophe We Are Experiencing From Environment
Alaul Alam :The world environment is experiencing various threats resulting in a dire catastrophe on living beings as well as nature. Many factors, which are...
Bangladesh Growth Journey Since 1971
Md. Mizanur Rahman ACS :When Bangladesh emerged from the ashes of the brutal war of independence in 1971, it was among the poorest nations in...
Neonatal mortality rate increases, but no one seems bother
NEONATAL killing is on the rise as bodies of about 210 newborns have been recovered from dustbins, jungles, and roads in the last six years...
Ongoing chaos at Railway also risks life at level crossings
EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of the level crossings and the rail gates are almost unguarded. Not only that, there is no proper traffic signal and modern...
Discomfort With House Rent Control Act
Shahriar Islam Shovon :On March 20, some students locked their rented house in the capital due to unwanted vacation to halt the spread of coronavirus...