Spying for balanced relationship
M N Hebbar : Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton could not have arrived in Berlin at a more inopportune time. In the German...
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A policy promoting human dignity
K M Zubair :Since the Europeans take great pride in claiming that they abolished slavery from the world, though they had the decency to do...
Readers’ Forum
A time of introspection for BCB Perhaps members of the BCB could consider a six months’ salary cut. This could be a time of introspection...
Mad rush for home
The three inter-district bus terminals, Kamalpur railway station and Sadarghat launch terminal in the capital experienced huge rush of homebound passengers on Saturday as thousands...
Banking sector trapped by high interest rate, excess liquidity
Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, yesterday revealed that the country’s banking sector is caught in a trap by high rate of interest, excess liquidity...
Credit growth, low inflation planned
The central bank on Saturday announced the monetary policy statement (MPS) for the first half of the current fiscal focusing on a low and stable...
12-hr truce in Gaza
News desk :The death toll in Gaza has passed 1,000, Palestinian medical officials say, 19 days after Israel launched an offensive against Hamas militants.It comes...
Russia slates EU sanctions, raps US over Ukraine role
Reuters, Moscow :Russia reacted angrily on Saturday to additional sanctions imposed by the European Union over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, saying they would...
CNG filling stations to remain open till Aug 1
The government has decided to keep the CNG filling stations open round the clock till August 1 to ease people’s sufferings during Eid. The decision...
HR, family complaint / 8 missing since Dec’ 4, 2013
Eight persons identified as Sajedul Islam Sumon, Tariqul Islam Jhantu, Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Masum, Mazharul Islam Russel, Md. Asaduzzaman, Md. Al Amin, A M Adnan...