Editorial

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...

Remembering Gulshan Tragedy :On July 1, 2016, the core foundations of this country were rattled by an unspeakable tragedy that will haunt us for the...

NOT that this is the first time that the government has planned to obtain bank loans for covering deficits in its national budget notwithstanding of...

BANGLADESH and Sri Lanka agreed to enter into a free trade regime by this year.The two countries reached the decision during official talks between Sri...

Dr. Muhammad Abdul Mazid :The Supplimentary Budget for the FY 2016-17 and the new Budget for FY 2017-18 has already been accepted in the Parliament....

BANGLADESH has more working age people known as demographic dividend since 2007 than bon-working and on experts view this opportunity to accelerate development using the...

MEDIA reports said nine children died of an undiagnosed disease in a remote Sitakund hilly area of Chittagong in the past four days. Meanwhile more...

Does FIFA ranking reflect real strength? A soccer fan expressed his surprise at the elevated positions of some of the substandard national teams in the...

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :The G20 leaders meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on 7-8 July comes almost a decade after the grouping’s elevation to...

Toxic chemicals in food Bangladesh has a problem: food. Excessive use of chemicals (like DDT and formalin) by farmers has become a matter of major...

Taylor Dimsdale :Even before Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the implementation of this profoundly important policy had...

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...