Attack on ethnic minorities increases
INCIDENTS of rights violation like torture, attack and intimidation on ethnic minorities and arson of their houses kept rising in the last five years as...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
People’s safety should be the main concern Highways and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader before becoming a minister was vocal about wrong steps of Awami League....
EU fund for fundamental rights!
Terry Reintke :Fundamental rights and values are under attack. Democratic principles, which we often take for granted, are up for discussion. The rule of law,...
No escape from the ‘economics of enough’
Leida Rijnhout and Riccardo Mastini :Tackling over-consumption of natural resources is a huge challenge for the European Commission and the member states. The lifestyle of...
A new set of hurdles for Bangladesh
A.Z.M. Anas :Bangladesh’s great strides in human development were widely celebrated this month, although they come at the potential cost of Western trade benefits that...
Loan recovery must be quick before banks collapse
NINE scheduled banks, burdened with huge amounts of defaulted loans, are now facing capital shortfall of at least Tk 16,507.38 crore. This year Bangladesh Bank...
Shut tobacco factory closer to school immediately
EXISTENCE of a tobacco crushing factory next to a primary school set up only a month ago on Nilphamari-Domar road highlights the terrible neglect that...
Capital’s pollution continues
AIR, water, sound and other environmental pollution in and around the capital remain unabated and continue to shoot up at an alarming level. We have...
Readers’ Forum
Women still face obstacles and violence Although women are increasingly participating in almost all sectors of the country, the obstacles they face are still there.We...
Women’s equal rights
Lathiful Khabira :Woman empowerment has increased in several job sectors, which ensure women rights, yet they are deprived of their actual right. It is a...
Good governance as an agenda of social change
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Governance is ‘an interdisciplinary field of study centering on relationships of power between government authorities, civil society and the market, in...
Foreign diplomats came to the help of press freedom
THE country’s press-freedom coupled with whatever democracy is left appears to be once more put to the sword following grave concern expressed by no less...