Letters

Dear Editor: It is indeed a bad news that peddlers of ‘madness drug’ are using air route too. The ‘crazy pill’ Yaba is very injurious to health because it causes sadness and depression. London-based Culture Trip on 30 May 2017 said that it is also called “the madness drug”. Despite the fact that Yaba was […]

Dear Editor: As we know, the ILO works in close collaboration and coordination with relevant national and international stakeholders and partners to enhance national enforcement of relevant fire and general building safety laws and regulations consistent with international labour, fire and building standards and good practices. The objectives of the ILO initiative of Fire Safety […]

Dear Editor: Some months back I was much impressed to read an interesting letter in this column (“Bangladesh will NOT see a leader like Kejriwal” written by Shafiq Adnan Nabil published in the Holiday).   Caliph Umar has impressed the Chief Minister of Delhi, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, the top leader of […]

Dear Editor: Widespread adulteration and contamination of food items including local and importehttps://www.weeklyholiday.net/files/index_php/category/letters/page/d fruits of various kind on sale in the market have become a matter of serious concern. although there is a law titled ‘consumers right act’, nevertheless it is failing to protect consumers’ rights. this refers to the very comprehensive article by mr. […]

Dear Editor: While reading an article by Sir Frank Peters (The HOLIDAY, “Corporal punishment must stop”, dated 05 June 2011) I felt his fervent affection and ardent concern for Bangladeshi school children who were and still are brutally and cruelly treated by their teachers. I ask those teachers to carefully read the following lines of […]

Dear Editor: The Holiday’s editorial on the disastrous fire at Churihatta that killed at least 71 people (Blazing inferno at Chawkbazar: Taskforce on fire safety a must, 1 March 2019) has correctly pinpointed that dealers and traders of flammables have not learnt any lesson from the Nimtoli blazing inferno of 3 June 2010 in downtown […]

Dear Editor: The world is on high alert with tensions between the US and Russia over Syria at boiling point. If North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are considered then an all-out war could be on the cards. In that case who would win if World War III broke out? This was questioned by the Daily Sun […]

Dear Editor: It is a fact that Bangladesh is the only country in the world which prints over three hundred million textbooks for free distribution among school students. Every year students of different schools of Bangladesh become glad to get free textbooks, and this year more than 35 crore free textbooks were given to school […]

Dear Editor: This refers to the article “Thrashed pupil awarded teacher’s salary” written by Sir Frank Peters. An Indian female schoolteacher who subjected a pupil to corporal punishment has been asked to give her month’s salary as compensation to the student to avoid being sacked, police arrest, and other disciplinary measures taken against her. The […]