Editorial

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...

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...

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....

Ambassador Sergio Duarte :As previously announced, the President of the United Nations Conference for the negotiation of a Convention on the prohibition of nuclear weapons,...

Ishaan Tharoor :It’s a truism that the world has grown numb to terrorist attacks outside the West. When Daesh set off a car bomb on...

Amina J. Mohammed :During the process of developing the Sustainable Development Goals it was clear to me how relevant and innovative the approach to ending...

Rooftop plantation :The number of children who need medical attention as a direct result of the capital’s polluted air has risen threefold in the last...

THE proposed 15 percent VAT on life-saving drug as a national daily reported on Friday will add to the cost of treatment of patients at...