Budget should be more ‘realistic’
LEADING think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue in a post-budget discussion said the FY2019-20 budget will favour affluent section of the society instead of establishing equity...
Editorial
The tax-happy fat budget
THE government in the FY 2019-20 budget announcement set many promises including 8.2 percent GDP growth rate and bring down the inflation at 5.5 percent....
Create enough jobs to stop risky migration of youths
NEWS media reported that about 64 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants who have been stuck in a boat off Tunisia for at least 14 days are refusing...
Want of Playgrounds
Md. Muzibur Rahman :Everyman in the world wants to have a sound health because “Health is Wealth”. If our health is not sound or well,...
Tourism Industry
Arif Ahammed :Love for the motherland is innate in every human being. That inner love stimulates the hunger for knowing the motherland and enjoying its...
Readers’ Forum
Education means increasing awareness :Education is the backbone of a nation. This backbone gets stronger when the basement is strong. The basement depends on increasing...
A Ticking Time-Bomb
Damsana Ranadhiran :The International Community most possibly are not fully realising the potential security threats the region and the world would face in near future...
Middle East Secretive Plan
Osama Al Sharif :In Sameul Beckett’s 20th Century absurdist play “Waiting for Godot”, the characters are made to wait in vain for the protagonist to...
ACC miserably failed to meet people’s expectation
PRIME MINISTER Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told Parliament that the public perception about many of the Anti-Corruption Commission employees being involved in corruption was not...
Turn prisons into correction centres
IN the wake of alarmingly increasing criminal activities inside the prisons, Home Minister on Wednesday directed the Inspector General of Prisons to curb unlawful activities,...
Trump’s Criminality
Jennifer Rubin :Two law professors, Joyce White Vance and Barbara McQuade, together with former White House counsel and Watergate figure John Dean, did more on...
Flexible Working
Taslim Ahammad :Flexible working opportunities may benefit everyone: employers, employees and their families. Advantages for employers and employees exist when the employer allows employees to...