Brexit Complex
Owen Jones :Less than a year ago, Boris Johnson told the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) that “no British government could or should” put a customs...
Editorial
Default loans pose risk, economic sector needs overhauling
THE International Monetary Fund on Friday said the rising defaults on loans poses the biggest risk for the Bangladesh economy that stands to grow at...
Economic Inequality
Blerim Mustafa :Increasing economic inequality is a defining challenge of our time. In recent years, it has triggered analysis and reflection by many scholars, politicians...
Kashmiri Issue
Bharat Bhushan :The Kashmiris have Delhi confounded. They have refused to engage the security forces in street confrontations. Their children are not queuing up to...
Monitoring must to prevent fatal gas cylinder blasts
THREE of a family died and three others were injured on their way home from hospital as the gas cylinder of an ambulance exploded in...
Train up unskilled manpower to tap the job market
LESS than half of the target for creating 39 lakh jobs has been achieved in the first two years 2016-17 of the government’s Seventh Five-Year...
Readers’ Forum
Cold Storages Needed For Onion StoringIt was claimed that last dry season 2.3 million tons of onion were grown in Bangladesh. But one million tons...
US Politicians
Must Keep Their Color-Hued Noses Out Of Hong Kong :The People’s Republic of China makes no secret about its sensitivity to foreign intervention in its...
Minister’s Criteria
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Who belongs to real minister class and who deserves to be a minister? In answer to this question, everybody can say...
Tackle urban poverty with well-designed safety nets
A WORLD Bank report stated that most of the urban poor are deprived of the government’s social protection benefits. There is a large gap in...
Vulnerable stock market suffers from confidence crisis
THE recent measures to prop up the stock market by the government appear to have failed as the unusual fall of share prices continues to...
Climatic Calamities
Shishir Reza and Matiur Rahman :[This is the second part of the article]Urban area is a composite of different subsystems of physical structures and human...