Editorial

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...

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...

AN estimated 7,500 Rohingya children in the squalid camps in Cox’s Bazar are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, said UNICEF as it launched on Monday...

THE wife and also a mother of a toddler was ruthlessly and repeatedly raped by a gang of eight men for hours until Wednesday midnight...

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...

DU should reconsider timing of admission tests The Dhaka University authorities should reconsider the timing of its admission tests. More than half the candidates do...

Andreas Wade :The idea of a Circular Economy isn’t a novelty in Europe anymore. The construction sector, for instance, recently announced that the recycling of...

Myriam Douo :Governments and public institutions such as the EU exist to make decisions on behalf of and in the interest of the people. At...