Investment into Vision Care
Rebecca Root :$244 billion is lost from the global economy each year because of problems with eyesight, according to a report led by researchers at...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
A recent Facebook post caught my attention. The colourful illustration that popped up was clear in its intent, and divided into four parts. The first...
Don’t harm your own people by poisonous food
FOLLOWING a suo moto rule, Bangladesh Food Safety Authority on Wednesday submitted a test report to the High Court. According to the report, there are...
Manipulated data can never show the real growth
CONTRASTING statistical data on economic indicators show the puzzle over the GDP growth rate. A research organization on Thursday wondered that GDP might be miscalculated...
Academic Supervision
Gazi Md. Abdur Rashid :Secondary education is the second level of our National Education System. The basis and quality of the central level of human...
Spy fact, not spy fiction
David Ignatius :Behind last week’s admission by a former CIA officer that he plotted to spy for China lies an astonishing tale of Beijing’s espionage...
Gang rape on bus again: Can’t we check the transport workers?
A COURT on Wednesday placed five people on an eight-day remand each in a case filed over killing a nurse after gang rape in a...
WASA must ensure supply of pure water during Ramzan
IN A mass hearing, city dwellers on Tuesday asked the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to shoulder the responsibility for supplying contaminated water in...
BD-UAE economic relation
Md. Muzibur Rahman :Bangladesh and UAE are both the Muslim majority states which have similarity with religion and other socio-economic culture and both the countries...
Destination of Dirty Money
Damsana Ranadhiran :Policymakers in Britain would ask, why do the world’s criminals come to London to launder their dirty money? Friedrich Lindenberg of the Organized...
About free media and freedom of speech
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzamn Mia has said applying censorship on news media is illogical; however journalists need self-censorship. He made the statements while speaking...
Save the jute sector, give workers their arrears
STATE-OWNED jute mill workers on Monday protested for arrears by blocking roads in the city’s Demra area. The workers brought out the agitation 12 days...