Editorial

Melissa Bungcaras :In May, government delegations and disaster risk professionals from across the globe gathered in Cancun, Mexico, for the fifth Global Platform on Disaster...

Hilary Smith :The theme of Australia’s 2017 national NAIDOC week (originally National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) is ‘Our languages matter’ – a theme...

Beauty of Chittagong must not be destroyed I feel fortunate to be born in Chittagong, it has rich history, “the natural harbour of Chittagong is...

Heinz Handler and Karl Aiginger :Political opposition to globalisation has risen in industrialised countries, although the overall positive effects on economic growth and alleviating poverty...

Catherine Cheney :Livio Valenti, co-founder of Vaxess Technologies, was among the entrepreneurs pitching Silicon Valley investors at the Emerging Markets Venture Forum in Napa, California,...

FLOOD situation in Bangladesh has never been such intense as this year. First it was the series of unprecedented pre-monsoon rainfalls to have started the...

HUNDREDS of illegal structures have crept on Kaptai Lake over the past two decades, choking the country’s biggest artificial lake and polluting its sweet water....

Use safe cable in electric lines Numerous electric wires are seen hanging from one electric pillar to another pillar in Dhaka city along with other...

António Guterres, UN Secretary General(From previous issue)And, of course – we all know – reform is not easy. We undertake reforms keenly aware of our...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :The World Bank and other influential international financial institutions and development agencies have been touting Southeast Asian (SEA) newly industrializing countries as...

ONCE again our private universities have come under the spotlight, and this time the accusation is many of them are being run without VCs. According...

A LEADING daily reported that politically blessed goons are making fortunes by providing gas, power and water illegally to the people of the city’s biggest...