Fixing of minimum wages and govt’s responsibility to keep cost of living down
NEWS media reported that the government has raised the minimum monthly wage for 4.4 million garment workers by around 51 per cent to Tk 8,000...
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Readers’ Forum
Respect others also The two major political parties of our country are at loggerheads, they hate each other intensely; the hatred is so profound that...
Unconventional monetary policy widening income, but wealth gaps also
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :In 2009, the world economy contracted by -2.2%. Growth in all developing countries declined from around 8% in 2007...
Coastal safety in disaster
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Due to its geographic position, Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries on earth. Bangladesh suffers from frequent natural...
Bangladesh must think differently about regional and international connectivity
CHINA is planning a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh. With joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed...
We doubt the competence and capacity of UGC to bring quality change in public universities
VICE-CHANCELLORS of the country’s public universities on Wednesday in a discussion with the University Grants Commission (UGC) opened the Pandora’s Box of diverse irregularities of...
Culture of peace in the UN Charter
Miroslav Lajcák :As we open this Forum, I will make three main points. First, I want to ask: what does a culture of peace actually...
WTO and Bangladesh economy
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :The current institutional format of the trading system- the WTO was created on 1 January 1995 replacing the GATT under which...
Stop the corrupt practice of pocketing money by depriving the poor
THE Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 215 tonnes of rice and flour, which were illegally sold in the black market from the government warehouses conducting...
Solve quota issue first and then announce fresh recruitment
WITHOUT solving the issue of quota reform in civil service recruitment, the government on Tuesday trickily issued a new circular for the 40th BCS recruitment,...
Readers’ Forum
Failing the Rohingyas After Myanmar, at the time called Burma, gained independence from Britain in 1948, its successive governments had recognised people of all ethnicities...
Medicines shouldn’t make people sicker
Emily Kaine :New research published in the JAMA Network Open journal has found that 13.6 percent of medicines in low- and middle-income countries are falsified...