Editorial

Gina Lagomarsino :Worldwide investments in health have led to dramatic gains. The number of deaths of children under 5 has been cut in half since...

Ernest Darkoh, John Sargent :Humanity simply can’t afford to wait another 15 years for partial progress. World leaders launched the Millennium Development Goals in 2000...

FATE of over 2.40 lakh students of seven colleges recently affiliated to Dhaka University (DU) is hanging in the balance, as various issues have not...

NEWS media reported that a 18th-century heritage building, believed to be the residence of Armenian philanthropist and educationist Nicholas Pogose, has been almost demolished. Despite...

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...

Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali Al Qassim :The Chairman of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue H. E. Dr. Hanif Al Qassim...

THE government has introduced interest-free car loan facilities for high officials of administration, from Deputy Secretary and above ranks and some other cadres when the...

OFFICIALS of the Department of Narcotics Control have disclosed that Drug dealers are luring Rohingyas into Yaba rackets and using them as carriers. Some traffickers...

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...