Sandrine Devillard, Senior partner at McKinsey & Company & Anu Madgavkar, McKinsey Global Institute partner./Project Syndicate Digital technologies are a double-edged sword for the world’s women. Men’s greater access to these technologies puts women at risk o ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy Women have always played an integral role in the agricultural landscape in Bangladesh. Despite their contributions, women are often not recognised for their efforts as farmers, and rarely have ...বিস্তারিত
Adriana Collini/Medium.com Most people associate Bangladesh with ready-made garments (RMG). But, I got to know its capital Dhaka as a bustling city and met fascinating people who are highly motivated to change their country. And what is even more unexpected, private playe ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy Democracy is not only a form of government but a way of life most suited to the civilized people. Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. It has been said ...বিস্তারিত
Natalie Nougayrède/The Guardian, UK A force capable of rallying public opinion, NGOs and politicians across borders – how distant that feels in the time of Trump I’d like to talk about heroes – and mine are people who defend human rights. They are the people who ...বিস্তারিত
Dr. Zahid Hussain, Lead Economist, World Bank: The lending rates cannot be reduced by issuing threats. It is not possible to cut lending rates by merely issuing directives to the banks unless we effectively address the fundamental reasons behind high lending rates. Liquidit ...বিস্তারিত
Md. Rizwanul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Law, North South University: Lobbying or persuasion for gaining undue benefit is not only one of our national diseases; it is so ingrained in our culture that most of us not only consider lobbying as natural and fair bu ...বিস্তারিত
Humayun Kabir, Former Ambassador to USA : The international community is now realizing the truth over the Rohingya issue. The world is admitting that mass murder and ethnic cleansing were carried out in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. We, on behalf of the forcibly displaced R ...বিস্তারিত
Air Commodore (Retd) Ishfaq Ilahi Choudhury, International Affairs and Security Analyst: Bangladesh will reap benefit of the pressure on Myanmar, wherever it comes from. The UN report, released on Monday, which accused Myanmar's military of carrying out mass killings and ga ...বিস্তারিত
UNB On three accounts, Kofi Annan, perhaps one of the most distinguished and illustrious UN Secretary-General, was quite different from rest of the lot. One, he was the first UN Secretary-General ever to come from a lifelong career in the UN bureaucracy. Two, he was also ...বিস্তারিত