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Making lessons in school joyful

Notwithstanding an impressive improvement in literacy, higher girls' enrolment and...

SDGs can guide Asia-Pacific to build back better

The Covid-19 crisis poses an unprecedented threat to development in...

BIDF: Words of caution deserve attention

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina early this week inaugurated the 'Bangladesh...

Rising market power and a threat to the recovery

The crisis has hit small and medium enterprises especially hard,...

Bangladesh needs to eradicate its 'extreme data poverty'

During a recently invited lecture to a group of government...

Entertaining unsolicited PPP project offers

Public-Private Partner-ship (PPP) has been appreciated as an important way...

Coping with unpredictability of pandemic

Bushra, an 11-year-old girl from a place near Idlib city...

Is the WTO now ready to deliver?

Even before Roberto Azevedo stepped down on August 31, a...

Fund for IT start-ups

The central bank is learnt to have created a Tk.5...

Moitree Setu, after Moitree Rail

When it comes to unusual geographical location, Bangladesh can be...

Ugly face of a preceptor

It was his birthday. But eight-year-old Yasin, admitted to a...

Bangladeshi women are rising-onwards and upwards!

Last February, I met Chaya Rani Das, a very talented...

Defining independence to teenagers

Telling adolescents about different heroic chapters of the 1971 Liberation...

Cost of indiscipline is high

This year, the nation is set to celebrate the golden...

Covid-19 vaccines, access and the intellectual property wars

By now, anybody speaking about vaccine equality and equity of...

Bravo! Bangladesh Bank

Bravo Bangladesh Bank! The central bank has recently taken a...

Is it another Covid wave?

With the number of Covid-19 deaths fluctuating, the rate of...

Big Pharma should not control Covid-19 vaccines

At a recent virtual gathering of parents and faculty at...

Exploring untapped resources of blue economy

With the approval of the Bangladesh Maritime Zones Act, the...

Where have 'education enthusiasts' gone?

In the 19th and early 20th century Bangladesh, many ustad...

Ushering in a new era for jute

March 6 marks the National Jute Day. But does this...

Let's build a better data economy

Humanity has never been so comprehensively recorded. Smartwatches capture our...

America fails to deal with 'Trump factor'  

To think that the world has seen an end to...