Views & Opinion

Sheikh Hasina’s Homecoming Was the Turning Point for Emerging Bangladesh

Hiren Pandit: 17th May 2023 is the 43rdHomecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On this day in 1981, Sheikh Hasina returned home from India after nearly six years in exile following the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 19...

Community clinics model: UN adopts resolution highlighting Sheikh Hasina initiative

The United Nations unanimously adopted the first-ever resolution on community-based healthcare on Tuesday. The resolution, titled “Community-based primary healthcare: a participatory and inclusive approach to universal health coverage,” acknowledged the important role community clinics play in promoting primary healthcare, women's e...

Politics of conspiracy will fail

Habibullah Mizan: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent tri-nation visit has turned the opposition movement upside-down. The oppositions have been gripped by a wide-ranging frustration. It is noted that after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had allowed public rally, the opposition led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party held countrywide public ...

Dr Wazed: Guiding Bangladesh’s entry into the nuclear era

ENGR. MD. TANVIR HASAN TALASH: In a war-torn country, the idea of an atomic energy commission seemed extravagant. At a science conference in Dhaka in 1972, headed by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a consensus was reached that a separate entity like the atomic energy commission in a newly independent country would be...

'Smart Bangladesh' to make the country the next tech hub in Asia

Zunaid Ahmed Palak: In the last decade, Bangladesh has shown the world how revolutionary progress has been achieved by building the Digital Bangladesh vision as dreamt by our visionary leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. It has now embarked on a task to build a Smart Bangladesh and make it the next tech hub in Asia. Just a decade ago, Banglad...