Editorial

Dr. M. Aminul Islam Akanda :The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority of Myanmar, has been being pushed out from their homeland for decades. There were...

Miroslav Lajcak :When the Charter of Algiers was adopted 50 years ago, it marked the unity of the Group of 77. This unity has not...

Manipadma Jena :Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. One in three stunted under-five children out of 155...

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

Roshni Majumdar :A Manual for Investigative Interviewing to abolish torture among detainees suspected of crime is in the pipeline, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Kevin J. Jenkins and Susan Bissell :There may be nothing more corrosive to our societies than allowing this assault to continue.Yet there are some signs...

Dulal Bhowmik :Durga Puja, the most popular religious festival of Bangali Hindus, celebrates the return of the goddess Durga to her natal home. In some...

FORMER Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is convicted and sentenced by Thailand’s Supreme Court in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a...

IT is human nature to learn from past experiences. But when it comes to deaths in so-called ‘crossfire’, law enforcement agencies seem to have learned...

Treatment at affordable cost When we fall sick, or feel discomfort, we go to physicians and hospitals. It is not that every patient gets cured....

Baher Kamal :Exacerbated by climate-related shocks, increasing conflicts have been a key driver of severe food crisis and recently re-emerged famines, a major United Nations...

Farid Ahmed :Forsaken and driven out by their home country Myanmar, tens of thousands of Rohingyas are struggling to survive in Bangladesh’s border districts amid...