Editorial

FROM the very inception, Mugda General Hospital in the eastern edge of the Dhaka city is facing many problems including shortage of physician, nurse, pathologist,...

Dried Padma at Paksey point The people of Paksey Union under Ishwardi upazila in the district of Pabna were proud of hilsha fish netted abundantly...

George Simon :The shadow – or undeclared – economy costs national governments billions in tax revenue, with a major impact on the public purse. The...

Euractive.com :Corporate networks need to ramp up speed and performance if they are to keep pace with digital transformation. This article takes a look at...

Hardly any free-space left in the city As a city of close to nine million people, it is no wonder that crowdedness and maneuverability are...

Baher Kamal :World organisations, experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change poses a major risk to the poorest rural populations in...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage :More than seven decades after the deployment of deadly atomic bombs in Japan, the UN has passed a historic treaty banning nuclear weapons...

THIS year’s outbreak of Chikunguniya fever a couple of months ago in the capital and other places around the country has been one unprecedented endemic....

THE European Union (EU) has said it will continue to press Bangladesh to conclude the negotiations on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on the return...

Dr Hanif Hassan Al Qassim :The world population has witnessed a remarkable growth during the recent decades. In 1965, it stood at 3.3 billion people....

Alf Nagel :Borders have been a constant theme of the company I run in Germany, Holzconnection. And because of where I grew up, they’ve been...

Olivier De Schutter, Oscar Rivas and Karin Nansen :Once again, the debate on reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has got off on the...