Editorial

THE world never seemed as bitterly divided as during the pre- hours leading to the G-20 summit to be held in Germany’s Hamburg today. From...

Empty football stadium A friend of me said: Why does the football stadium in Bangladesh remain empty? I said:: There are three reasons. First one...

Confederations Cup may be laid to rest  World Champions and World No. 2 Germany annexed the title of the ninth edition of the Confederations Cup...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage :World hunger has increased, reversing years of progress, said a UN specialised agency.During its biennial conference held in Rome, Italy from 3-8 July,...

Farhang Jahanpour :Although US policies during the past few months have been quite puzzling and unpredictable, the events of the past few days have been...

Azza Karam :A decade ago, it was difficult to get Western policy makers in governments to be interested in the role of religious organizations in...

MEDIA report said around 2,000 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in Turkey at the moment are passing inhuman life and need to be brought home for safety....

EXPERTS have opted for proper hill management based on geological survey to check landslides and its consequences in hilly areas like Chittagong and Sylhet hilly...

Save city’s ponds Dhaka was at one time full of ponds that accommodated fishes, living organisms, and bathing children. But more and more of them...

Jack Detsch :The Justice Department believes the FSB, Russia’s top domestic spy agency, coaxed Belan into stealing information from 500 million accounts.It had taken American...

Farok J. Contractor :Nationalistic politicians rising around the globe, in varying degrees, espouse an “our country first” mentality displaying skepticism or outright hostility toward globalisation.Globalisation’s...

Thomas Silberhorn :Africa is the continent of opportunities in the 21st century. Roughly half of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Africa. At the...