Reforming the education system
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Education is a vital component for human development in a country. Research has shown that higher investment in education can have...
Editorial
Gas price hike would deeply affect the people and the country
WITHOUT introducing waste-reducing meter, Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has proposed for hiking the tariff of bulk and household gas uses. However, country’s business communities...
US-Taliban talks and the fate of Afghan people
US and Taliban negotiators wrapped up their 16 days of talks, longest round of peace talks in the recent time held in Qatar’s capital Doha...
Readers’ Forum
Rohingyas must go to MyanmarFor a long time, there is no visible progress to repatriate the Rohingyas, the forcibly displaced people from the northern Rakhine...
First Oxford woman who married a ‘native’ Indian
Freda Bedi lived an unusual life. Born in a small town in England, she moved to India for love and ended up joining the independence...
Vietnam’s hybrid model of socialist governance and market economics
Rayhan Ahmed Topader :On its own motion, it is converting its economy from the communist model to a market-oriented system. It has, for example, unified...
Free the nation from corruption
THE Anti-Corruption Commission has identified 33 sources by which officials of the Comptroller General of Accounts are doing corruption. The CGA officials realized unethical financial...
Administrative pressure needed to stop storing chemicals in Old Dhaka
RIDING on rising garment export, Bangladesh’s textile chemicals market is forecasted to grow to $1.38 billion by 2024 from $864 million last year registering an...
Miseries of women in public transport: When it will end?
Mazharul Islam Abir :Every people have to overcome many obstacles to reach their goals in life. These obstacles are sometimes encouraging for the people to...
Anti-India militants: Now a big problem for Pakistan
Secunder Kermani :Standing guard at the gate of a madrassa on the outskirts of Islamabad was a stern-looking young man, armed with what appeared to...
Modernise the riverine routes
DIVERS of Fire Service and Civil Defence on Sunday recovered body of another missing person from Buriganga River that raised the death toll from Thursday’s...
Pragmatic foreign policy needed to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar
QUOTING Myanmar government, news agencies reported that Arakan Army insurgents have killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State....