Editorial

Roger Calow :We know the world has water problems. The recent drought in the Horn of Africa left at least 20 million people without access...

THE recent surge in contractual appointments of Secretaries and Departmental Heads going on retirement or people from outside the service has raised many questions. It...

AS repeated cyclonic storms with catastrophic severity and tidal surge are now hitting the US coastal state of Florida after battering the Caribbean islands of...

OIC, Rohingya people and BD The objective of the OIC, when it was formed and still, is to maintain solidarity and unity among the member-states....

Shamshad Akhtar and Erik Solheim :Senior government officials from across Asia and the Pacific will meet in Bangkok this week for the first-ever Asia-Pacific Ministerial...

Unhealthy spurious cosmetics Many fake cosmetics using the name of world-famous brands have flooded the markets of Bangladesh. These are very injurious to the human...

Joseph Chamie :Are humanoid robots or androids a solution to declining and aging populations? Given the prospects of demographic decline and population aging coupled with...

The Trump administration is under growing pressure from Congress and human rights activists to condemn Myanmar’s government for what some call a potential genocide by...

IF Bangladesh fails to maintain environmental flow requirements (EFRs) in river ecosystems, it will face a food production loss of up to 23 percent in...

TEACHERS’ shortage in primary schools is creating big setback to our education system at the lower tier overshadowing the preparedness of students in subsequent stages....

Shahiduzzaman :She was born in the early 1950’s to an ultra-poor family in Kundihar, a remote village of Banaripara of Barisal division in Bangladesh. She...

Washington lawmakers who once enthusiastically supported Aung San Suu Kyi’s rise to power in Burma have shifted this week to criticism of her silence in...