Govt must take the fire issue seriously
A PARLIAMENTARY watchdog on Thursday asked the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority to set up necessary number of fire hydrants in Dhaka city to...
Editorial
RAJUK and FSCD both are responsible
THE FR Tower in the city’s posh Banani area where fire incident killed at least 25 people on Thursday and injured 100 others had no...
Trump colluded with Russia
Chris Kahn Nearly half of all Americans still believe President Donald Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a...
Strengthening public diplomacy
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed : Public diplomacy is a part and parcel of foreign policy. Conceptually, foreign policy is that part of a state’s national...
Readers’ Forum
It’s a common scenario in each and every year that, prices of essential commodities, particularly vegetables and grocery items, increase in kitchen markets ahead of...
We are deeply shocked
AT Least 19 people including a Sri Lankan national died and about 50 others received severe injuries in a devastating fire that engulfed FR Tower...
Human traffickers and the Rohingyas
MALAYSIAN rights campaigners after six years of investigation found that a transnational human-trafficking syndicate in 2012-2015 traded more than 170,000 Rohingya people that generated USD50...
Introduce a dependable public transport system
A CIRCULAR route bus service was launched on Wednesday between Dhanmondi and Azimpur in Dhaka city. This service will cover the Dhanmondi, Science Lab, New...
Foreign airliners losing confidence
AMID security lapse and widespread criticism for poor service at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, another foreign airliner is going to shut its operation in Bangladesh....
Russia : A personally run empire?
Andrew Higgins :After 19 months in a Russian jail awaiting trial for “extremism,” Dennis O. Christensen, a Jehovah’s Witness from Denmark detained for his faith,...
Readers’ Forum
Dhakai Jamdani Sharee is our national pride. Before obtaining GI registration, Bangladeshi Jamdani products were vulnerable to abuse by other parties. Now, the Bangladeshi products...
The bloody birth of Bangladesh
On March 25, 1971 the Pakistani military forcibly confined all foreign reporters to the Hotel Intercontinental (currently again got the same name Intercontinental Dhaka) in...