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Effective regulation of ridesharing services a must
| Updated at 12:00am on January 17, 2021
IRREGULARITIES in and the violation of rules and regulations in app-based ridesharing services have been a cause of concern. The service providers have so far...
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The medley of claims and a mess of overhead cables
| Updated at 12:00am on January 17, 2021
THE management of tangled wires of internet and cable television connections hanging overhead, which apparently look discomforting but come to serve essential purposes in a...
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Pvt univs must relocate to permanent campuses
| Updated at 12:00am on January 16, 2021
THE University Grants Commission’s decision to investigate the financial audit reports of the private universities that have failed to move to permanent campuses in 12...
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A ludicrous move to rob public to pay private in LPG trade
| Updated at 12:00am on January 16, 2021
THE proposal of the technical evaluation committee of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission for a 50 per cent increase in the price of the liquefied...
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City authorities must save canals, wetland to save Dhaka
| Updated at 12:00am on January 15, 2021
THE encroachment on the 40-foot Jirani canal, now reduced to 17 feet, by government agencies and influential quarters speaks of a sorry state of most...
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An unlawful govt move that weakens ACC, harms rule of law
| Updated at 12:00am on January 15, 2021
THE High Court coming to have said that the withdrawal of a corruption case filed by the border guard agency, and later transferred to the...
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Government must soon attend to Bailey bridge replacement issues
| Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2021
THE death of three people in a Bailey bridge collapse is shocking. The accident took place early Tuesday morning at Kutukchari on the Khagrachari–Rangamati Highway...
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Government’s expensive COVID-19 vaccine negotiation failure
| Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2021
BANGLADESH pays 47 per cent more, as New Age reported on Tuesday, for the COVID-19 vaccine to the Serum Institute of India — a partner...
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Govt must not let rice market be volatile
| Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2021
A LOW government stock of food grains, especially rice, and a syndicate of millers and wholesalers appear to have caused a worrying increase in rice...
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All still quiet about EC corruption complaint inquiry
| Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2021
EXPECTED moves for the investigation of corruption allegations, including the ones involving financial corruption, that a group of eminent citizens and a group of lawyers...