Opinion

Quandaries of Enforcing Zone-Based Lockdown

Pranab Kumar Panday: The situation of COVID-19 infection has become worse with time in Bangladesh as over the past two weeks more than 3,000 positive patients from about 15,000 tests

Challenges to banks: Debt recovery, deposit collection and business development

The entire banking industry of the world is confronting with new challenges due to coronavirus pandemic. Not only the banks but also most of the businesses are now thinking new

The political economy of COVID-19

GOVERNMENTS around the world are attempting to prop up a failing capitalist system by — surprise! — throwing money at wealthy individuals and corporations, especially in the financial industry. In

Post Covid-19: Ways to step up economic growth and human health

Sujayendra Das People around the globe are slowly limping back to normal life. All of us are well aware that the way human beings suffered from the end of March

Learning to teach

by Raghavendra P Tiwari: IT IS largely believed that the education system is neither creating enough 21st-century global skills in students to meet the industry requirement nor training them in

Trump mixes religion with race in re-election bid

PRESIDENT Donald Trump saw another opportunity for his failing re-election bid, namely using religion, when demonstrators protesting the murder of George Floyd lit a small fire in the basement of

Locust Panic No More in Bangladesh

COVID-19 pandemic could now be fusing into a hunger pandemic – apprehend WFP. Bangladesh is now fighting to ensure food security of her huge population under uncertain lockdown situation. Just

A Wake-up Call for Gender Responsive Social Protection

“Social protection is a human right” and is enshrined as such in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and in other major United Nations human rights instruments. The main