Editorial

Employing female engineers in Biman It was great to see the all-women staffed flight by Biman on International Women’s Day, where the Pilot-in-Command, all cabin...

Bikram Vohra :German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pretty much on the mark when she says that today every government has to contend with lies, fake...

Dr. Sakib Bin Amin and Muntasir Murshed :Electricity is the most important form of energy that is profusely used in household as well as in...

THE fatal flyover accident in which a 36-metre-long girder of Moghbazar-Malibagh Flyover fell on a railway level crossing killing one worker and leaving two seriously...

THE UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur for Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee has issued a fresh call to institute a highest-level International Inquiry Commission for...

THE government is reportedly going to introduce an automatic annual pay rise for civil servants to keep pace with inflation instead of increasing salaries through...

NEWS reports said that Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services urged the government to allow a 20 percent cash incentive on exports of ICT...

Obstructing medical services As you mentioned in your editorial titled “Obstructing medical services at hospitals” on March 11, the recent strike by the doctors was...

Barry Eichengreen :Donald Trump took office promising a raft of sweeping economic-policy changes for the United States. He has quickly discovered, like previous US presidents,...

Caren Osten Gerszberg :On a recent trip to San Francisco, I saw a man lying on the sidewalk. I had just crossed a street that...

Bill Emmott :Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front, claims that the twenty-first century’s defining battle will be between patriotism and globalism....

Provisions for senior citizens In a report published today by one of our leading Bangla newspapers, the honourable Finance Minister reiterated the need for better...