Indiscriminate road digging causes public sufferings
The indiscriminate road digging in Dhaka city is causing great misery for the people, and the approaching monsoon is feared to make matters worse...
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Korean ambassador visits BUFT
Park Young-sik, ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Bangladesh, visited BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology on Tuesday...
Failure to keep unapproved drinks off market unacceptable
THIS is unacceptable that the authorities have not yet been able to make producers withdraw unauthorised electrolyte drinks even after a court order to this end. The authorities first failed to take action on their own against the unauthorised production, marketing and sales of electrolyte drinks...
Teacher shortage harming public medical education worrying
TEACHER shortage, the absence of teaching hospitals and other infrastructural inadequacy having constrained education in public medical colleges, more in the 19 colleges that started academic activities after 2010, is hugely worrying...
Teacher shortage hits medical education hard in Bangladesh
Medical education in public medical colleges, especially those established in recent years, has been badly affected by shortages of teachers, hospital facilities, and...
ICAB, BPPA sign deal on DVS
An agreement between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority was signed at CA Bhaban in the capital Dhaka on Thursday, said a press release...
Mismanagement in public health system proves fatal yet again
MISMANAGEMENT and corruption in the public health system proved fatal again as a cardiac patient died while being stuck inside a malfunctioning lift at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Gazipur on May 13. The attendants of the...
Authorities have issues to address to stop public nuisances
ACTS of public nuisance are something that citizens face every day and feel aghast by, but find no remedy from them. The Penal Code defines a public nuisance as any act that results in injury, danger, or annoyance to the public or people in general or creates obstructions...
Laws rarely applied to stop public nuisance
Laws related to public nuisances that affect citizens鈥� rights are hardly applied, allowing such offenders to go unpunished in most cases for such...
Ensure equal opportunity in public procurement, experts urge
Experts at a seminar on Sunday said that the government should remove discriminatory tax structure to ensure level playing field for all domestic and foreign firms in the public procurement process, according to a press release...
Special public fund for cancer prevention, treatment sought
Public health activists and physicians at a conference on Friday urged the government to create a special fund for cancer prevention and treatment to help poor people to fight the disease...
Trump鈥檚 son Barron, 18, named Republican delegate
Donald Trump鈥檚 youngest son, who is still at high school and largely shielded from the public eye, will debut on the political stage in July as a delegate at the...
What is critical global geopolitics?
FOR overwhelming western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc, the disappearance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1990-91 was symbolised overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall followed by the...
Timely demand for a health promotion authority
PUBLIC health policies are designed more for health services delivery, especially in the management of non-communicable diseases, than for health protection and prevention. Experts, therefore, at a workshop that research and advocacy organisation PROGGA...
Unilever, GAIN launch project to improve public health
Unilever Bangladesh and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition are collaborating on a pilot project, aimed at enhancing the environmental sustainability and public health of Bangladesh鈥檚 urban areas, titled 鈥楩or People and Planet: Resilient, Healthy and Sustainable Food and Environment Systems.鈥�...
46th BCS preliminary test results published
A total of 10,638 candidates have passed the preliminary test of the 46th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations...
Dublin campus Israel protest ends after demands met
Students at Ireland鈥檚 prestigious Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday ended a five-day-long protest against Israel鈥檚 actions in Gaza after they said their demands were met by the university leadership...
Collective efforts stressed to address dengue threat
Public health experts, at a dialogue on Tuesday, asked for collective efforts of all stakeholders, including government, non-government agencies and citizens to combat dengue threat in the forthcoming rainy season...
Writ petition seeks directives to prevent tree felling
A writ petition was on Sunday filed in public interest, seeking directive to the authorities concerned to form committees at the district and upazila levels to prevent tree felling across the country indiscriminately...
AIUB, BCB hold workshop on heat illness management
The Department of Public Health of the American International University-Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Cricket Board jointly organised a workshop titled...
Iran: last nation standing
BY NOT responding to decades of Israel鈥檚 provocations with an attack on Israeli soil, Iran displayed patience. The Islamic Republic rulers realised the provocations were becoming harsher, more damaging, and without stopping; it was time...
The crooked timber of Modi鈥檚 India
WHEN Parakala Prabhakar published his essays in April last year in a book titled The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis, one ignored it on suspicion that as husband of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman he could not but be...
KNF man killed in Ruma army operation
The Inter Services Public Relations said on Monday that an army operation left one member of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front killed in the remote Moonlai Para of Ruma upazila in Bandarban...
Better response plan is must for severe heatwaves
IN RECENT years, extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves or unusually cold winters have become a common feature of Bangladesh鈥檚 climate, yet the government appears unprepared to tackle the...
Govt should recognise April 10 as republic day
THE demand for April 10 to be recognised and observed as republic day merits a serious government consideration. Almost all political parties in the opposition, many civic groups, historians and intellectuals have on different occasions..
Clashes have left 30 dead in Central African Republic: UN
The UN鈥檚 mission in the Central African Republic on Wednesday called on rebels and militias to immediately cease hostilities that have left at least 30 dead this month.聽....
UPDF protests against arresting Tripuras as KNF suspects
United People鈥檚 Democratic Front on Wednesday denounced a statement of the Inter Services Public Relations for branding eight ethnic Tripura youths as members of ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front following...
Declaring April 10 as Republic Day demanded
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD on Wednesday placed six demands, including declaring April 10 as Republic Day since Bangladesh鈥檚 Proclamation of Independence was adopted on this day in 1971, to run the country in the spirit of liberation war...
Donors pledge enough to buy Ukraine 500,000 shells, says Czech PM
The Czech prime minister said on Tuesday that twenty countries had pledged enough to buy 500,000 artillery shells for Ukraine outside Europe within the so-called Czech initiative....
Trial judge warns Trump over intimidation, 7 jurors picked
The judge in Donald Trump鈥檚 historic criminal trial on Tuesday warned the Republican presidential hopeful against intimidating jurors as seven panelists were chosen with unexpected speed following questioning by both sides....