Editorial

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...

Sports Tv channel The people of Bangladesh are sports-oriented. We have been watching it since our boyhood. The disciplines were soccer, cricket, hockey, badminton, volleyball,...

António Guterres, UN Secretary General :(From previous issue)Let me be crystal clear: Sustainable development must be the DNA of Resident Coordinators.Resident Coordinators should be able...

Felix Stein and Devi Sridhar :The World Bank’s relationship with US president Donald Trump has raised concerns about its political neutrality in recent weeks, but...

THE suspension of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor MA Mannan for the third time by Local Government Division on July 6 was highly disappointing to...

THE partial cease-fire in Syria worked out by Russia, USA and locally to be participated by Jordan, announced in the sideline of G20 summit in...

Ignoring peoples’ views, not good At the very moment when Donald Trump became the President of the United States, things started to happen in a...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram : (From previous issue)Two decades later, there is apparently still no consensus on the East Asian crises and their causes. But contrary...

António Guterres, UN Secretary General :Allow me first of all to express my deep gratitude to all the colleagues that have worked hard – in...