Editorial

Hawker free pavements It feels as if I have arrived at the city of Chittagong after a very long time. The age-old New Market area...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Since the 1950s, there has been a popular dance called the ‘limbo rock’, with the winner leaning back as much as possible...

Thalif Deen :When US Ambassador Nikki Haley called for a virtual arms embargo against the repressive and much-maligned military regime in Myanmar, she took a...

Focus on Rohingya women’s health It was good to see that international aid agencies have come forward to meet the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya...

Idriss Jazairy :On the occasion of the 2017 International Day of Older Persons, the Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and...

Bjorn Lomborg :The average American believes the US spends a whopping third of its federal budget on foreign aid. Consequently, a majority of people think...

Paolo Lubrano :Of the nearly half a million Rohingya refugees who’ve fled across the border and have sought refuge in Bangladesh, women and girls are...

NUCLEAR disarmament campaign group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has won the Nobel Peace Prize this year for its efforts to rid the...

EVERY year 2 lakh foreigners, mostly Indians, employed in Bangladesh received Tk 40 billion as salary and perks as the country has lack of technical...

Magdy Martinez-Soliman and Patrick Keuleers :The Sustainable Development Goals 16 (SDG16) calls on UN Member States to promote responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making, and...

Baher Kamal :The world is running out of new antibiotics to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a new specialised report warns ahead of...

Load-shedding in Rajshahi :The weather in Rajshahi is humid and hot these days, but we hardly have electricity in our locality. Too much load-shedding hampers...