Austen Moore :The Sustainable Development Goals position agriculture at the forefront of addressing rural poverty, hunger and livelihoods. Evidence suggests that gains in agriculture have...
Naimul Haq :The repatriation of Rohingya refugees driven from their villages through violence and terror appears uncertain, with critics saying the agreement legalising the process...
The economy has come under pressure due to the banking sector crisis, inflation and soaring imports amid inadequate export earnings and insufficient remittance inflows, the...
A leading daily recently reported that around 51 per cent of registered non-government organizations based in Dhaka do not file income tax returns to escape...
MORE than just holding small and big scale elections, it’s time the Election Commission realise that it is essential to ensure the national elections is...
COUNTRY’S prominent think-tank, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), revealed that there is an asymmetry between export and import growth of garments, cotton, edible oil and...
The shame of corporal punishment I read with great interest that last Saturday (January 13) Bangladesh celebrated its 7th Anniversary of the law that bans...
M.I. Rahman :Great men are not born all the time. All great men are the products of history. History does not produce great men time...
Leonid Bershidsky :Two big shareholders of Apple are right to add their influential voices to those concerned with smartphone addiction. If they are serious about...
Healthcare for the poor There is a serious shortage of healthcare facilities in the public hospitals, while for poor people, private medical facilities are inaccessible....
Felino A. Palafox, JR. :The times call for active measures to combat climate change. People have again and again relayed the words: reuse, reduce, recycle....
James Plunkett :Imagine strolling with a neighbour to the corner shop, only to be charged more than her for buying the same box of cornflakes....
