Readers’ Forum
A heroic death :On 18 February each year, I cannot help my tears coming out from the eyes, as on this day about 49 year...
Editorial
Dhaka : Need for sustainable urban development
Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. M Abul Kashem Mozumder Urbanization is taking place in a rapid stride. Beautification of cities with wide roads, footpaths, flyover...
Power abuse at multilateral organisation
Teresa Welsh :A United Nations survey looking at sexual harassment at the organization showed junior and temporary staff were particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, but...
Readers’ Forum
Cinema halls in plight :The number of the cinema halls in the country has come down to 150 from 1,500 in 33 years, for either...
Take hard-line against tax eviction by working foreigners
THE international organisations and development partners working in Bangladesh did not surrender or renew the Customs Passbooks of their 395 non-Bangladeshi staff till the date....
Political will needed to root out illegal drug trade
SOME 102 drug smugglers and peddlers surrendered to the Cox’s Bazar district police on Sunday. The surrender took place just 10 months after security forces...
Readers’ Forum
Unhealthy competition in education My brother was a SSC candidate. He said the MCQ questions were pretty hard and he might not get an A+....
What can the UK do about the IS teenager?
Dominic Casciani :Shamima Begum, one of three schoolgirls who left London in 2015 to join the Islamic State group, has said she wants to return...
Leadership role in crisis management
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Business crises are, by definition, unexpected and they happen outside and beyond usual business routines. Despite the character of unexpectedness, the...
Ensure safety for patients in the hospitals by any means
CITY’S Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital has started operations after a messy situation caused by fire on Thursday evening. Director of the SSMCH said a...
Barapukuria coal disappearance: Corrupt officials must be punished
THE authorities concerned have not made public the probe report on disappearance of 1,44,644 tonne coal worth Taka 230 crore from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company...
Save the Sunderbans to save the Royal Bengal Tigers
FOR the constant rise in sea levels and rapid climate change, the famous Royal Bengal Tigers of the Sunderbans could be disappeared within 50 years,...