Editorial

NINE state-owned banks with huge defaulted loans are now facing capital shortfall of Tk 16,507.38 crore as of March 31 this year and as per...

Safe cities for women Around 56 percent of women are reluctant to use public transport in the capital due to a lack of proper facilities,...

A good decision The Bangladesh Government will send troops to defend Mecca and Medina, two holy cities of the world, against foreign invasion. It is...

Antanas Guoga :Representative democracy lives from its representatives. Ideally, wise and responsible men and women, who have already achieved something in life and have now...

Mohammad Amjad Hossain :There seems to be turn tide again in favor of relations between America and Saudi Arabia, when President Donald Trump of the...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Why is it so difficult to achieve meaningful coordination when everybody agrees that it is desirable, if not necessary? President Richard Nixon’s...

THE tragedy in Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea continues non-stop. Over 10,000 migrants were rescued alone during the past four days while 54 were...

BANGLADESH Economic Association (BEA) has suggested, more reasonably that the government should more rely on income tax instead of entirely focusing on Value Added Tax...

America should follow its own adviceDuring his recent trip to the Arab-Islamic-American summit in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, President Trump urged the leaders of 55...

Alan Cowell :In what seemed at first to be a throwaway line on the campaign trail in advance of the general election on June 8,...

SK Nazmul Huda, Labin Rahman and John Richards :Since the beginning of the industrial revolution two centuries ago, mankind has added enough greenhouse gases to...

Bev Postma : As World Hunger Day May 28 approaches, it is time for us all to redouble our efforts to reach the goal of...