Editorial

ON Saturday when Dhaka University was celebrating its 50th Convocation and Jubilant crowds were emitting shouts of glory, a national daily reported on the sorry...

Clemens Fuest :Populism is sweeping across Europe, from the Front National and Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party to Italy’s M5S and the AfD in Germany. Populist...

Abdulrahman Al Rashed :The US government tried to solve the Syria crisis by suggesting three negotiations based on a balanced political proposal. But the Damascus-Iran-Russia...

Chris Patten :I am old enough to remember when the best thing about populism was that it was not popular. Nativism, in any form, did...

Engine serial numbers? :The print media has recently reported the government’s plans to dredge 24 major river routes in Bangladesh by June 2018. A total...

SEVERAL national dailies reported that detectives on Thursday arrested eight people, including a schoolteacher, for their alleged involvement in online leakage of multiple choice questions...

THE seizure of huge quantity of ‘Not-for-Sale’ marked government hospital medicines worth over Tk two lakh and arrest of a person involved with the theft...

Dredging the small rivers The print media has recently reported the government’s plans to dredge 24 major river routes in Bangladesh by June 2018. A...

Pierre Louette :It can affect us all but the effects of digitalisation can also be as disruptive as they are constructive. Europe already faces considerable...

Sir Frank Peters :It’s total nonsense for a headmaster or a teacher to claim corporal punishment does no harm, and that it’s an effective tool...

Keyu Jin :China exports more to the United States than the US exports to China. That makes US President Donald Trump furious – so furious,...

THE old city is as vulnerable to inflammable mishaps as before. Even seven years after the deadly Nimtoli fire in old city claiming 124 lives...