Eid homegoers most sufferers this year
AMIDST the collapsed train schedule, transport shortage and allegations of extra charges on buses, people are suffering most while returning after celebrating Eid to their...
Editorial
Saving The Earth’s Forests
Ladd Connell :This month, the world’s leading climate scientists issued a report on land confirming what we already know: forests are a critical weapon in...
Russian Interference
David C. Barker and Morgan Marietta, Ph.D :The good news is because of the bad news.The good news is that Russian disinformation and propaganda probably...
Falling Corporate Tax
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :The harmful effects of falling corporate tax rates have been acknowledged in a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) research...
Find out a sustainable solution to protect leather market
ALTHOUGH tanners were supposed to start buying rawhide at the government-fixed rates, merchants refused to sell, demanding the payment of a “considerable” portion of their...
Capital shortfall in state-run banks
More than two-third state-run banks faced capital shortfall in the first quarter of the year. Though the situation was gloomy, but the government is yet...
Social Media
Nidhal Guessoum :Last week, I attended a research and innovation summit in Jordan, which was organised by the youth-led PHI Science Institute with support from...
Political Battle
Martin Kettle :Throughout his nine years in Conservative-led British Cabinets, Philip Hammond was regularly compared to AA Milne’s Eeyore. But what the lugubrious former chancellor...
Jugglery of growth figures failed to create jobs
BANGLADESH’S economic growth though mesmerising, it has been proved over the past decade that jobs could not be created proportionately for the youths keeping adjustment...
Ensure basic rights of the domestic helps
POLICE recovered the body of a domestic help Riya Akhtar, 14, from Dhanmondi in the capital on Friday. The girl died after falling from the...
Brexit Storm
Rafael Behr :When boxers go into a clinch it looks more like a tender embrace than a fight. The same is true of the clash...
Tragic August
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Bangabandhu is the architect of independent Bangladesh. He had the towering courage and personality. Bangabandhu was a real epitome of courage,...