Editorial

Poor BBC radio-signals in Bhola I live in mofussil in Upazila (Head Quarter) Lalmohan in the district of Bhola. I am used to listen to...

Workers dying from silicosis Labourers who work in stone crushing in different parts of our country are dying due to silicosis caused by inhalation of...

Ali M. Latifi :I spent the evening of April 13 with a cousin and two aunts in the upscale Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood in Kabul,...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Throughout his life Ak Fazlul Haque fought for upholding human rights of the poor farmers. He relentleesly struggled for the protection...

WHEN it comes to addressing the water logging in Dhaka city, WASA is a “failed organisation”, said Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon on...

IT is not unknown that government offices are safe haven for systematic corruption and where it is for rendering service to people the severity of...

Martin Khor :This week, Donald Trump will mark his first hundred days as US President. It’s time to assess his impact on the world, especially...

Noeleen Heyzer and Anis Chowdhury :“The despised, the insulted, the hurt, the dispossessed-in short, the underdogs of the human race were meeting. … Who had...

Delayed justice is rather no justice :The collapse of Rana Plaza is the deadliest industrial disaster of the world. The main culprit, Sohel Rana, owner...

THE government relief operation in flood-hit haors where people have lost Boro crops in the field and livestock to become utterly helpless, seems to be...

DESPITE immense opportunities for women entrepreneurship to grow manifold in Bangladesh it has not thrived to the level of expectations in the country mainly due...

Mary Paulose :Climate change, argues Ghosh, occupies the same strata of consciousness reserved for Harry Potteresque wizardry and fairy lands for us: it doesn’t exist,...