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Editorial
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Editorial
Drug administration in comatose
Govt action needed to resuscitate it
Overwhelmed as we are by some pressing national agenda, we have willy-nilly tended to look askance at some institutional weaknesses that seem set to impact on national health, and perhaps the economy.
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Editorial
Our workers in Malaysia
Take immediate steps to end their woes
There seems to be a never-ending tale of sufferings of a large number of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. Having fallen victims to fraudulent dealings among corrupt recruitment agents in both Bangladesh and Malaysia, today these workers are passing their days in uncertainty regarding the authenticity of their work permits, payment of promised salary, fixation of working hours and working conditions and finding a decent accommodation.
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Post Editorial
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Post Breakfast
Extortion or donation?
Muhammad Zamir
The other day someone explained to me the essential difference between an optimist and a pessimist. Confronted with an awkward situation, an optimist is likely to retort that 'it could have been worse.
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Between The Lines
Through democracy alone
Kuldip Nayar writes from New Delhi
Islamabad is a broad city, with wide roads and deep runs of thick trees and green grass. Houses are expansive, neatly tucked into self-sufficient sectors with markets, eating places and a mosque.
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Opinion
How practicable are the reform proposals?
M A S Molla
Bangladesh politics was going down to the abyss and such politics was letting the nation as a whole down. The party constitutions have bestowed more power upon the single party chiefs than on the plural councilors. Whatever weak democracy has constitutionally been there in the parties has not been practiced at all.
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