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...
Editorial
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Rape and killing have become easy: Reason best known to police
SEVERAL hundred students of Stamford University Bangladesh continued demonstrations for the second consecutive day on Saturday at Siddheshwari and Dhanmondi in Dhaka demanding justice for...
Justice lost if revenge takes place against injustice
CHIEF Justice of India SA Bobde in the context of the extrajudicial murder of four alleged rapists on Saturday said that justice lost its very...
Let forests thrive to protect biodiversity
AS settlers continue clearing forest areas for fruit cultivation and fish farming, the biodiversity in Moulvibazar’s Lathitila has been facing a serious threat. According to...