Editorial

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Various different, and sometimes contradictory lessons have been drawn from the 1997-1998 East Asian crises. Rapid or V-shaped recoveries and renewed growth...

Karen Newman and Cara Smyth :Fashion is not a sector that exists in a vacuum. In fact, the fashion industry is not unlike any other...

Thalif Deen :The vote on the latest American-sponsored resolution in the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Syria was predictable: of the five big powers, China...

DOCTORS and nurses at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) went on a sudden work abstention on Sunday for three hours as some doctors were assaulted...

APPARENTLY the huge flashy mega-projects within the capital might seem an integral part of the city’s communication infrastructure, but the murky side of dirty politics,...

Football : Game of goal What Italy proved in 1982 beating Brazil in the World Cup Football quarterfinals, England repeated on October 22 handing Brazil...

Inflated electricity bills I have been living in a rented apartment in Sector 3, Uttara, since 2012. In March 2013, we detected some abnormalities in...

World Bank Feature Story :The new report Uncharted Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability looks at how the increasing number of droughts...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage :The deliberate starvation of civilians could amount to a war crime and should be prosecuted, said an independent UN human rights expert.In a...

Hala Jaber :When primary school headmaster Abdul Jabbar Mahmoud set off from Shamlapur on his motorbike heading to Teknaf town, at the southern tip of...

THE chance to recover the occupied canals is remote since the authorities have not taken any effective steps to recover those for long. Most of...

WE are at the onset of winter. The government should take monitoring initiatives to check dust pollution in Dhaka city as the quality of air...