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Editorial
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Editorial
Fertiliser, gas, energy prices
Government must move with extreme caution
The move by the government to hold back a proposal for a hike in the price of urea fertiliser is welcome. It is, from our point of view, a wise move considering the ramifications that a fertiliser price rise could have thrown up.
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Editorial
The 'psychological' affliction
There must be a way to prevent it
While we take some comfort from the experts' assertion that the spate of illness afflicting female students in many parts of the country is to do more with the mind than anything else, and that no one should panic, the fact remains that the disease, mystery to many since the like of it we have not been exposed to before, it has spread from only one school in Narshingdi to not only other schools of the area but to other districts of the country as well.
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Post Editorial
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Post Breakfast
Insurgency and instability mount in Afghanistan
Muhammad Zamir
More than five years have passed since the major combat operation Enduring Freedom was unleashed in Afghanistan. Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld in his typical vein of over confidence had suggested in May 2003 that the war in Afghanistan was in a 'cleanup' phase.
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A process of accountability has begun
Brigadier General Shamsuddin Ahmed (Retd)
They say that a wise man is one who learns from others' mistakes and corrects himself. And not so wise is one who waits until he himself commits mistakes and then corrects himself.
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Opinion
Diluvion-Alluvion Act: Need for amendment
Md Abdul Kader
There are some Acts and rules in our country which are not pro-poor, rather seem to be kept to deprive the poor of their rights. Ironically Bangladesh is more known as a poor or least developed than a developing country.
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