Doctors should ensure quality healthcare service to patients
IN a surprise visit to 11 government hospitals and health complexes in eight districts including Dhaka on Tuesday, the Anti-Corruption Commission found 92 doctors out...
Editorial
Increasing gap between rich and poor to hamper sustainable development
THE gap between rich and poor people continues to widen in Bangladesh, which also ranks among those countries with the fastest-growing number of very wealthy...
Readers’ Forum
Rohingyas must return The governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh seem to agree that forcibly displaced people from the Rakhine State of Myanmar, who are currently...
Time to break the silence on Palestine
Michelle Alexander :On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the lectern at...
Personal responsibility in the age of technological progress
Michael M. Lokshin :In the modern system of criminal justice, the sentence imposed on such a perpetrator should prevent that person from repeating the crime,...
ACC’s role in fighting corruption
THE Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday suspended one of its directors for allegedly leaking information about its investigation beforehand and also having nexus with the accused....
Poultry feed import must not pose grave health risk
THE government has banned import and sale of meat and bone meal, a protein concentrate for poultry, because of its health risks to human and...
A World Bank for the new world order
Alex Thier :The abrupt resignation of World Bank President Jim Kim with three years left in his term raises important questions about the institution and...
Combating climate vulnerability
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Many scientists believe human beings may be causing something just as dangerous climatic changes over the coming century larger than any...
The miseries of River Karnafuli must end
WITH alleged support from a section of officials, the encroachment of Karnafuli banks is still rampant by some powerful quarters flouting the High Court order....
Stop recurrence of question paper leakage this year
WITH a view to stopping question paper leakage, the Education Ministry has directed to keep all coaching centres closed during SSC and equivalent examinations slated...
Readers’ Forum
Public hospitals not for private practice Medical professionals in Bangladesh command considerable respect from people. However, the health sector is increasingly becoming a private affair....