Editorial

Use of cyclone shelters :Cyclone, heavy downpour, flood and depression are becoming more and more common in Bangladesh. Although cyclone shelters have been established to...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed the biggest-ever national budget of Tk 400266 crore for the fiscal 2017-18 with an ambitious spending to attain...

BY withdrawing from the Paris Accord on climate change, the US President Mr. Trump has once more infuriated the world leaders to fulfil his campaign...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :We agree with the views of the anti- tobacco activists that tobacco companies and shop keepers should not be allowed to...

Elena L. Pasquini :For thousands of years, farmers have used genetic diversity to cope with weather variability and changing climate conditions. They have stored, planted,...

Electricity destroying nature! :We are living in a very strange country indeed where the unreasonable demand of a handful of people is being fulfilled surreptitiously...

THE destruction caused by cyclonic storm Mora has started to emerge as estimates suggest about 60,000 houses were damaged in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and Satkhira...

A MASSIVE truck bomb that ripped through the secured diplomatic zone at Kabul – killing at least 90 people while wounding more than 450 on...

IN free Bangladesh we mourn the 48th death anniversary of veteran journalist Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia today. He was a towering personality in the media...

THE government is considering doubling the excise duty on bank accounts with large debit or credit balance in fiscal 2017-18 to boost revenue collection. Accounts...

Politics over Statue We are stunned and just cannot believe that the statue of Lady Justice was removed in the dead of night from the...

Jon Van Housen and Mariella Radaelli :It was a noble idea: Heads of industrialised nations would gather in Sicily just 200km from the coast of...