Mismanagement over smart driving licences
ALTHOUGH the government has enforced the Road Transport Act, 2018 with provisions for heavy fines for traffic rules violations, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is...
Editorial
US recalled Beximco’s drug on diabetes be withdrawn from local market
TWO lots of diabetes controlling drug of Bangladesh origin were recalled in the US last month for containing a compound that has the potential to...
Micro Credit Needs Policy Attention For Digitisation
Faruk Ahmed :People almost all over the world have severely been affected by the pandemic of coronavirus that has led the global economy to an...
Sinophobia The New Islamophobia
Aly Kassam-Remtulla :I was a graduate student in Oxford when the planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York. After hearing the news, I...
Toxic water flowing through cross-border canal in Agartala puts Bangladesh at risk
TOXIC industrial and medical waste and household sewage has been making its way into Bangladesh from Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura,...
Dhaka
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Dhaka was a city with its population about a million only in 1970s. Now the population of the city is more...
Disturbing Ecology
Shakeel Mahmood :Pandemic due to the sars-Cov2 virus is the global public health emergency crisis causing acute infectious respiratory disease, which has brought even the...
Deported Bangladeshi migrants must find jobs in Bangladesh
Thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers are passing their days in deep crisis abroad as they are facing forced repatriation, loss of jobs, limited access to...
No way of saving the jute mills under present system of plundering
JUTE sector industrialists have expressed their interest in running the 25 state-owned jute mills which the government has shut down in June this year but...
Sonali Bag Biodegradable Alternative To Polythene
The Sonali Bag (Golden Bag) is a cellulose-based biodegradable bioplastic alternative to plastic bags, particularly polythene bags, developed by Mubarak Ahmad Khan, a scientist of...
Mideast Diplomacy 28 Pages’ Mystery Of 9/11 Commission Report
Abu Tahir Mustakim :Politics of the Middle East have suddenly become more turbulent again. This unrest has started over the establishment of diplomatic relations of...
Verdict against the police officials is welcome but police must be saved from politics
THE first verdict under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013 was given by Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court who...