Editorial

Due share of Teesta water Of the indecisive issues between Bangladesh and India which have been discussed since the last couple of years, Teesta water...

Dr Börje Ljunggren :With the threat from North Korea’s nuclear breakout growing daily, repair of Sino-US relations has assumed new urgency. The meeting between the...

Ghassan Charbel :This is the Middle East: Arabs, Persians, Turks and Kurds. But let’s put history aside to avoid the trap and analyze the present....

Mojisola Ojebode :A new report issued by the United Nations (UN) takes a controversial stance on synthetic pesticides. The conventional wisdom is that they are...

THE autopsy reports of the seven killed during the raid carried out at Moulvibazar’s Nasirpur, some 20km from Borohat in Sylhet by law enforcement agencies,...

OVER 80 percent of people in Bangladesh are carrying tuberculosis (TB) germs, mentioned a report of a local daily. Despite having TB germs in the...

Laurent Vogel :The Dutch Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2016 oversaw a much overdue revision of the Directive on the...

Duncan Green :A couple of Oxfamers were over from the US recently so ODI kindly pulled together a seriously stimulating conversation about life, the universe...

DISCUSSANTS at a roundtable in the city on Thursday raised critical reservation on the distribution of the social safety net programmes carried out countrywide by...

FINANCE Minister AMA Muhith’s suggestion that tuition fees in public colleges, universities and medical colleges should increase at least fivefold from fiscal 2017-18 is a...

First, there was the electronic system failure leading to huge amounts of losses in foreign currency. And now we have the fire incident of March...

Charmaine Taylor Rietman :I have two children. A daughter who just turned six and a son who just turned three. My daughter was late to...