Indian citizenship law to create instability in this region
PROTESTORS across India, particularly in northeast India, set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday after lawmakers approved the government’s...
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Project costs are increased for corruption
IN the latest effort, the executive committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday made upward revision to the construction of the third terminal at...
Gulf Crisis Natural Gas To Frame Future Relations
Dr James M Dorsey :Natural gas could well emerge as the litmus test of how relations among the Gulf’s energy-rich monarchies evolve if and when...
Flaws Within Education System Bangladesh Needs To Wake Up
Sir Frank Peters :If, as they say ‘ignorance is bliss’, Supreme Court justices Md. Imman Ali and Md. Sheikh Hassan Arif have profuse apologies to...
Questions raised by President are valid but his govt doesn’t care
PRESIDENT Abdul Hamid on Monday said commercial courses were turning public universities into business organisations and also disrupting the educational atmosphere on the campus. “Thousands...
Government must care to respect human rights of our people
EVERY four years, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council reviews Bangladesh’s human rights situation as part of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). During the UPR...
People paying high but getting low quality telecom service
A REPORT published recently by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said that quality of service of state-owned mobile phone operator Teletalk was the lowest in four...
Modern Slavery Universal Basic Income May Set People Free
Neil Howard :Recent years have seen a huge increase in public, political and media attention focused on “modern slavery”. Widely decried as a contemporary evil...
Citizenship Amendment Bill Why India Should Reject It
Aftab Alam :The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government at the centre is all set to introduce the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the...
Save Buriganga to save Dhaka dwellers: Court can’t
THE High Court has directed the Department of Environment (DoE) and Dhaka WASA to take effective steps to stop polluting Buriganga River. On Sunday, the...
Discontents of Inequality Not Only Unacceptably High, But Also Rising
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest’ protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich’ campaign, is not...
World UHC Day Quality Primary Healthcare A Must
Md Billal Hossen :Enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race,...