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The Financial Express

When death flashes in the sky

Given the incidence of the annual return of lightning-strike deaths,...

Making charity meaningful

During the last two decades, Bangladesh has undergone an economic...

Patronising profit-hungry rental power plants 

No amount of criticism /opposition can deter the government from...

'Graduation', infrastructures, and SDG catalysts

Bangladesh's 'graduation' stride can be gleaned from SDG reports. That...

The neglect books receive after a reader's death

Many a person may have passed through the experience. It...

Solar power: The next big thing 

A number of write-ups on renewable energy have been published...

No way to defy the regime of bribery 

Why only less than 30 per cent Bangladeshi households don't...

What's next for Sri Lanka? 

After 51 days' self-exile, the ousted president of Sri Lanka...

When soap, shampoo and tooth paste are luxury items

There seems to be a spree of frolicking with prices...

Hawkers rule the Dhaka lanes

The unbearable loneliness of Charulata, heroine of Rabindranath Tagore's story...

Counselling for tortured students

The authorities of public universities have utterly failed to protect...

Basking in people's woes

The revenue board is happy as it has been mopping...

Flood wreaks havoc on Pakistan

What's wrong with Mother Nature?  Different parts of the world...

Reinventing fasting

Fasting has traditionally been a religious practice. By abstaining from...

Corruption begins at home

In this time of unprecedented global economic crisis of the...

Monopoly power and inflation in Bangladesh

In early January 2003, Robert Lucas, President of the American...

A life haunted by myriad 'accidents'

With the very mention of the term 'accidents', the view...

Rise of an unearned income group

The price spiral is hurting low- and fixed-income groups of...

Can't Dhaka adopt 'Going Dutch' in its commuting?

The global environment protection campaigners have been advocating greenhouse gas...

Pied Piper of Pakistan

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for calm, de-escalation of...

Contingency plan for overcoming crisis

The spill-over effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on Bangladesh's economy...

Rivers drying up everywhere

The American news channel, CNN, on August 20 carried a...

The story of a domestic help

She is one of the four million slum dwellers working...