Editorial

A NATIONAL daily has reported that the number of war-wounded freedom fighters increased 10 times with enhancement of their benefits, with only 499 first enlisted in 1973, when the allowance was Tk 75, growing...

BANGLADESH should ratify the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Water Courses to secure the nation’s water-sharing rights from neighbours, voiced the concerned experts in a view-sharing...

Poor purchasing power parity Bangladesh is the nation most vulnerable to global climate change in the world, according to German Watch’s Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) of 2011. This is based on the analysis...

Neeta Lal :With the dust settling on one of the world’s most raucous and polarising democratic exercises – the Indian general elections – many profound lessons have been learnt. But perhaps the most vital...

Eric S. Margolis :China’s President Xi Jinping walks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a welcoming ceremony at the Xijiao State Guesthouse in Shanghai. – Reuters fileChina’s President Xi Jinping walks with his...

Patrick Lescot :The gunshots that echoed in Tiananmen Square still ring in our collective memory. They’re shooting!” The cry spreads through the Beijing crowd at 11:30pm, as the first clicks from the army’s AK-47s...

Mahbubul Alam, a true journalist who during his career as journalist served to shape the core of professional journalism in Bangladesh, passed away at 78. The profile of late Alam — full of so...

THE Finance Minister in his postbudget discussion on Friday said that the proposed budget for the year 2014-15 will not provide any opportunity to legalise black money, though the minister mentioned nothing about the...

Price stability matters most  From the budget presented by the finance minister on Thursday, it appears that the price of essential commodities, including rice and pulse, will come down from the current level. Verily...

Grant Mincy :As a boy in the southeast African nation of Malawi, William Kamkwamba harnessed the wind. In 2002, drought and famine – common problems in one of the world’s least-developed countries – forced...

Frank Islam :The resounding verdict given by the people of India in favour of a Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Narendra Modi provides a great opportunity for Washington and New Delhi to press...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Nasir Uddin :The theme of World Environment Day is on ‘Small Islands and Climate Change’. The slogan for the year 2014 is ‘Raise Your Voice Not the Sea Level....