Editorial

Prof. Dr. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :Zero Emissions Day began in 2008 when its founder, Ken Wallace, launched a website in Nova Scotia, Canada, calling for September 21st to be a day when no fossil fuels are consumed. It has since grown into a global movement that seeks to implement a 24-hour temporary ban on the combustion of fossil fuels. “Giving our planet one day off a year” was the message, which was quite straightforward and easily understood by anyone. It...

It is unfortunate, to say that at least 17 ministries could not spend even one per cent of the allocation from the budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 in July and August. The foreign, youth and sports, and home ministry’s Public Security Division could not spend anything at all. A media report, quoting the latest data of the IMED, said some Tk 18.78 billion has been allocated for 30 projects of these ministries and departments.Since the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation...

A family, or in a larger sense, a society that treats its children in a violently ill manner will never progress, because children are its future, plain and simple. A society with rich resources can never prosper if its children are not treated well, given the right kind of education and atmosphere for them to grow up as healthy citizens. Violent treatment of children can cause them to lead a deviated life. Nobody will say that an ideal atmosphere for...

Risky venture Almost everything today is powered by batteries: phones, vehicles, clean energy projects. These have a long lifespan and immense storage capacity. But there is a fatal flaw in their persistent use: currently made of lithium, the batteries take hundreds of thousands of years to degrade, and the way they are disposed of currently poses an environmental risk. Researchers recently chanced upon an alternate source – one that uses a material found in crab shells – to store energy....

Though the government has decidedly chosen to be austere in its policy in the wake of falling dollar reserves and dire economic straits, it is taking anti-people decisions for economic management of the country. This is very sad that steps are now being taken against public interest as they used to be taken in the past. Whom does the government want to serve when the country is reeling under an economic crisis?Just recently, the government has decided to import wheat...

Allegations have intensified that Petrobangla and Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) have now turned into a den of irregularities, mismanagement and corruption due to continuous abuse of power by some unscrupulous and influential officials. As a result, crores of taka is downing the drain on the tip of nose of the authorities concerned, but to no headache of anyone.According to a news report published in a national daily on Sunday, the country has been deprived of Tk 4,697 crore for irregularities...

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam said that those who will hamper public movement by keeping construction materials on roads will face action. The mayor said this while attending an awareness-raising campaign against dengue in Mirpur’s Paikpara area on Saturday. The mayor found building owners kept construction materials including rods, cement and sand open on roads and footpaths, blocking the drains and causing waterlogging on the streets. Public litigation is highly ignored in the city and the mayor’s step...