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Towards creating planned villages

Once it was a picturesque sleepy village with the meandering...

Hard days ahead for apparel exporters

Things have taken a turn for the worse for the...

Meloni, Italy's first female prime minister

Italy has its first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. And...

Human rights, Bangladesh & the UN Human Rights Council

The media reported from New York on October 10  that...

Redressing the basic faults in transport sector

On the eve of the National Road Safety Day, the...

A unique bid to feed the hungry

Feeding the starving people by governments or private organisations is...

Road safety is still a far cry

Five years ago, in 2017, the government formally announced October...

Long queues before OMS points

The queues before open-market sale (OMS) trucks of the food...

Importance of education in post-LDC era

The literacy rate in Bangladesh is hovering around 72-74 per...

Effluent plants can't handle microplastics

A  recent study by local researchers on the failure of...

Tackling dengue menace

The number of dengue patients in the hospitals across the...

Geriatric day-care centre

The inauguration of the country's first geriatric day-care centre at...

Living in 21st century Plastic Age

Locating plastic fragments mixed with supposedly pollution-free sea waters is...

Postal service is in a sorry state

Following the reversal suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic in...

Market turnaround amid a crisis of confidence

Quite a few people in the country's capital market regulatory...

Benefits of switching to solar power

Reportedly the government is going to adjust the bulk power...

Price volatility of wheat

On a year-to-year comparison, wheat imports to the country have...

Human factor still matters

Of late, loadshedding is being experienced daily as part of...

Habits of littering, waste-dumping

Similar to jaywalking, the people of Bangladesh are compulsively habituated...

Rude public behaviour on a worrisome rise

If there has been a proliferation of rude public behaviour...

NBR automation: still a distant dream?

Automating the country's tax collection system is an old issue....

Combating menace of drug abuse

Jafar, not his real name, was the only son of...

Power tariff hike and its ramifications

The recent announcement by the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC)...