Free media under pressure globally
Will Higginbotham :Buoyed on by the likes of United States’ President Donald Trump, a growing number of political leaders are encouraging hostility towards news media...
Editorial
Mounting debt threatens UN’s development goals
Elliot Harris and Chris Lane :In 2015, 193 countries adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an overarching policy roadmap through 2030. These goals...
Not revulsion towards migrants, US should help to make countries safe not to flee
AT LEAST 1200 migrants from Central America, mostly Honduras, headed on foot to the US border. Honduras in recent times has been riddled with political...
Snatching rampant because police do not feel strong to put fear in their minds
NEWS media reported that snatchers are ruling the city roads in broad daylight and after dusk, though police in groups have a visible presence in...
Readers’ Forum
Power must be used for the welfare of the country :We do not know what to say, everything is deteriorating so fast. News of killings,...
Both India and Bangladesh in mad rush to misuse public money
WITH the general elections in Bangladesh slated for later this year, Bangladesh and India are in talks to fast-track implementation of the development projects under...
Our poorly run custom houses
THE Chattogram Customs House (CCH) has given the job of scanning import cargoes to a foreign company (SGS) at a cost of Tk 29 crore....
Decentralization for ensuring local governance
Dr. M. Abul Kashem Mozumder and Dr. Md. Shairul MashrequeResearch work on decentralization advocates local-self government and popular participation. The studies conducted by Conyers (1981),...
Sense of nuisance
Taslim Ahammad :Equally in everyday dialect, nuisance is to some degree that causes an annoyance or disturbance. It is difficult to define what degree of...
ICT: A giant step towards achieving SDG
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :After long discussion and research, on 25 September 2015, the United Nation adopted 15 years of sustainable development goals, known 95...
Foreign policy of US under attack
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :Unhealthy situation appears to have taken place at the White House, official seat of the President of United States of America since...
Local self-government for rural development
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :(From previous issue)It may be argued that the city mayor can hardly redeem the promises of change. We cannot expect much...