Punishing will not improve image of Malaysia
MALAYSIAN police arrested a young Bangladeshi national on Friday who spoke in an Al Jazeera documentary aired on July 3 criticizing the government over its...
Editorial
Technical education in jeopardy as students lack interest
STUDENTS are showing little interest in studying at the polytechnic institutes with an estimated 1.35 lakh seats remaining vacant at 624 public and private institutes...
Corruption Changed
Jim Anderson :The World Bank’s commitment to helping countries control corruption dates to 1996 when then President James Wolfensohn made his “cancer of corruption” speech....
Development
Yossef Ben-Meir :The idea of development itself, its definition, and even the method we use for defining it, would be a good place to begin...
Country is most vulnerable to capital flight
REPORTS in national dailies on Friday said Bangladesh is among the top forty countries around the world and only second in South Asian region in...
Higher corona risk looming in flood affected areas but health workers have no worry
WITH river erosion taking a devastating turn in a few areas in the country’s flood-hit northern region, the waterborne diseases are spreading in those areas...
Readers’ Forum
River Traffic Needs To Control ImmediatelyMaritime accidents are not infrequent in Bangladesh. In another tragic mishap on June 29 as many as 33 people aboard,...
Eid-ul-Azha Amid Covid-19 Crisis
Eid-ul-Azha is the second biggest Muslim festival after Eid-ul-Fitr in which Muslims sacrifice cattle including sheep, goat, bull and camel. Muslims believe that the very...
Mayors must come out of state corruption system to improve city life
The overwhelming problem with public officials is they are concerned with generally thinking of ways of making money. The whole idea of holding public positions...
Instead of coercing NBR stop protecting plunderers
REVENUE collection has missed the target by a big margin in the 2019-20 fiscal year due to sluggish economic activities. The collection was short of...
We have every reason to be cautious about Chinese experimental tests
A REPORT in a national daily on Wednesday said a move by a Chinese pharmaceutical company – Sinvac, to conduct the third and final phase...
City Corporations must coordinate among other service providers
MANY parts of Dhaka went under knee-to-waist-deep water after monsoon rainfall this week, once again exposing the dilapidated state of the city’s drainage system. Apart...