Editorial

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...

John Feffer :In democracies, corruption works in a similar way. The opposition slams the ruling party for all the ways it uses the levers of...

Liz Schrayer :If you were a teenager in the ’80s, you remember “We Are the World” – a song that became the fastest-selling American pop...

Act fast to complete Moghbazar flyover :Traffic jam in Moghbazar and nearby areas has been increased due to the construction of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover. The...

THE country is apparently facing acute food shortage; which is evident from a government decision to increase food grains import to 20 lakh tonnes this...

THE fact that many of our public hospital doctors’ work in private clinics for an extra buck is not a new phenomenon, but this widely...

SAUDI heir to the throne Mohammed bin Salman reportedly want to end the two-year old war in Yemen is perhaps one of the best news...

People losing purchasing capacity Different parts of the country have been devastated by the recent floods. Crops and homestead are being damaged. The communication system...

Rebecca Wexler : Never in history has the global community had more young people to celebrate than on this International Youth Day, as the world...