Shahiduzzaman :Visitors might be confused after arriving in Char Chatkimarai, a tiny island of eight square miles situated in the extreme south of Bangladesh close...
Aditya Sinha :Two recent events remind us how Americans stand apart from the rest of the world. One was their high-pitched hysteria over a possible...
Baher Kamal :Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather,...
A SERIOUS traffic gridlock had erupted on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway lasting from Tuesday midnight until Wednesday night when a goods-laden truck went out of order...
QUOTING environmentalists, a national daily reported that hope for the green tannery industrial park at Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka has been fading as...
DETECTIVES in separate drives in the capital arrested seven members of two fake currency-making gangs that were trying to circulate fake notes ahead of Eid-ul-Azha....
THE abduction and murder of seven individuals, including the Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor and a senior lawyer of the District Judge’s Court in April...
Fraser Cameron :Last week, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer launched an investigation of Chinese ‘unfair trade practices’ with a focus on alleged Chinese stealing...
Taylor Luck :The changes were as radical as they were swift. On July 26, Tunisia voted to criminalise sexual harassment and discrimination against women. On...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Following the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession in its wake, the ‘new normal’ in monetary policy has been abnormal....
Unsupervised Internet access to children! :Though the country is moving fast in terms of Internet and smart-phone penetration, but moral and social values have been...
Adulterated fertilizers in local markets Media reports said, fake and adulterated fertilisers have flooded the local markets causing harms to our agricultural production. The fertility...
