Editorial

Promoth Manghat :Fintech revolution is not a new phenomenon. From the days of the Pantelegraph of Giovani Caselli in 1865, which was used to verify...

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus :A few weeks ago, as the newly elected Director-General of WHO, I undertook one of my first official country visits, to...

Anthony Hussenot :Today, freelancers represent 35% of the United States workforce. In the European Union, the rate is 16.1%. Both figures demonstrate the same global...

REPEATED environmental disasters seem to take heavy toll on the people of this country this year. Followed by unprecedented off-season heavy rainfall, landslides, flash floods...

GOVERNMENT institutions are at dyeing state due to mismanagement, corruption and injustice. Bangladesh Biman, Railway, BTCL, Post Office, Teletalk, BRTC, Government Hospitals, Educational Institutions etc...

Remove fees on recruitment exams According to the Public Service Commission (PSC), three lakh eighty-nine thousand applicants applied to sit for the 38th BCS examinations...

Nurul Amin :Airfreight from Bangladesh has been suffering from an unprecedented backlog situation for the last few weeks. Physical structure of the Biman Export Cargo...

Kate McGrane :Communities in some of the most dangerous corners of the world will be left without lifesaving aid because of countering violent extremism agendas....

Crispen Mawadza : Countries everywhere are focused on supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). From successive G20 presidencies (Turkey, China, Germany) to many of our...

A EUROPEAN conference on Sundarbans started in German capital Berlin yesterday to discuss how to protect the world’s greatest mangrove forest from destruction at a...

OPERATIONAL loss of Bangladesh Railway (BR) climbed to Tk1,226 crore in the immediate past fiscal year (2016-17), thanks to poor service delivery and operational inefficiency....

Paul Voutier :Sustainable Development Goal One (SDG1) calls for over one billion people to begin earning more than $1.90 a day by 2030. For a...