Editorial

Triple talak :There is no provision of triple talak (divorce) in a single sitting in the holy Quran, but there is provision of triple talak...

THE High Court on last Thursday directed the government not to allow setting up of any industrial unit within 10 kilometres range of the Sundarbans....

GI, short for Geographical Indication, is a system of marking products for their particular geographic origin based on heritage and possession of special qualities or...

Roads in northern districts too dangerous Every year, many people are killed in road accidents, particularly in the highways of the northern part of our...

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...

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....