Editorial

Food Tank :The Food Sustainability Index (FSI), developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) with the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Foundation, ranks...

Mahfuzur Rahman :Life for Bangladesh’s rural people, particularly in its remote north, is still miserable. Seasonal flooding, river erosion, and the low quality of rural...

THE government has planned to carry out dredging and make the country’s vast waterways navigable in 10 years back but it is still nowhere to...

COOPERATIVE Societies as they operate without exclusive government monitoring are grabbing money of poor innocent people without serious accountability. Over 266 co-operatives are reported to...

Save Mohammedans SC Three consecutive defeats in three matches! It means that Mohammedan SC is the story of helpless surrender to the management crisis. But...

David Rothkopf :The global situation may be more dangerous than it has been at any time since the height of the Cold War. You think...

George Voloshin :The CAATSA provides for additional sanctions against foreign persons responsible for ‘serious human rights abuses in any territory forcibly occupied or otherwise controlled...

Rafiqul Islam :Experts and policymakers here say regional cooperation is a must to resolve long-standing water problems in South Asian countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, China,...

THE government programme of sending 318 people ranging from lawmakers to senior government officials and party men at a cost of Tk 10.15 crore from...

STEALING of food grains from government food depots is capturing headlines in the national dailies almost regularly but there is hardly any information that the...

Ban adulterated food Food adulteration is a common practice in Bangladesh. Many food items that we regularly buy from the local markets contain some kinds...

Felix Dodds :At the beginning of August, the High Level Independent Panel to Assess and Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat came out with its report. Before...