Editorial

Excise duty on bank accounts! The banking sector of Bangladesh may face difficulty in dealing with its customers due to increase of excise duty on...

Julie Koch :Indigenous women in Asia are setting examples in their efforts for a more peaceful, fair and equal world. But discrimination, poverty and lack...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Budget this year announced by Finance Minster AMA Muhith at the fag end of his life has been exposed to the...

Nele Meyer and Lucy Graham:This week Apple will showcase its latest product developments at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Silicon Valley, providing a glimpse...

A STUDY reveals that dredging in the Passur river channel for plying the coal-laden vessels from India to the proposed power plant at Rampal in...

STATE-RUN Power Development Board is set to buy power from two Indian private companies at prices higher than those charged by local companies which won...

THE number of students pursuing higher education is increasing but gross enrolment at the level in Bangladesh does not compare well with the neighbouring countries,...

ACCORDING to the PMO sources, the government has planned to rehabilitate the city’s slum-dwellers by constructing some 10,000 residential flats in Dhaka. The National Housing...

We condemn ISIS The three dirtiest and most appalling deeds are killing the innocent people, rape and sodomy. The ISIS, an extreme religious organisation, is...

Jorgo Riss and Shuo Li :Both the EU and China had previously urged the US to stay in the Paris Agreement, and stressed America’s role...

Baher Kamal :Water-everybody talks about it, warns against its growing scarcity, excessive waste, the impact of climate change, the frequent severe droughts and so on....

David Firn :Theresa May’s Conservative party has lost its overall majority while remaining the largest party in a hung parliament. Can the prime minister cling...