Ensure food safety at all levels
BANGLADESH Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), lone quality control authority for food, has no mechanism to detect harmful agents like antibiotics and pesticides in any...
Editorial
Pre-IPO Placement
Dr. Sharif Nurul Ahkam :There have been fairly extensive discussions on Pre-IPO placements in various circles, such as, TV programs, Security and Exchange Commission, and...
People should not be considered as ‘tenant’
THE High Court on Tuesday observed that some Deputy Commissioners and Officers-in-Charge of police stations consider themselves as “zamindars” and act as if they are...
ACC needs to be transparent first
THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has admitted their responsibility for wrongly implicating Jaha Alam in a graft case, which resulted in him languishing in jail for...
Employee Rights
Taslim Ahammad :Despite the importance of having stable employment, it is equally important for employers to respect the rights of their employees, especially those rights...
Fire Management
Rifat Zafreen :Last few fire incidents especially Banani blaze showed us how unprepared we were in handling fire incidents especially in Dhaka. In comparison to...
Military Take-Overs
By Saeed Qureshi :There have been three successful military coups in Pakistan replacing the elected civilian governments with the army rule.The first such coup took...
Destruction of ecology by Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar
PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said the environmental balance of Cox’s Bazar was under threat as hills and forests were being cleared to establish settlements for...
Ban on rickshaw and its impact on people
DHAKA North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Wednesday reaffirmed the government’s decision to ban three-wheeler rickshaws and rickshaw-vans on three thoroughfares in the...
Readers’ Forum
Awareness Needed to Stop Spreading Rumour on Facebook Almost in every part of the globe, using social media has become a common phenomenon for people....
Education Technology
Gazi Md. Abdur Rashid :Technology refers to the use of scientific or any other relevant knowledge in a systematic way. In another sense technology means...
Gas Price Hike
Muhammad Quamrul Islam :In Bangladesh, new gas price hike by 32.80 percent as per announcement of the government came into effect from July 1 on...