Editorial

GOLD smuggling is increasingly haunting Bangladesh Customs Authority as it continues unchecked over the years. The New Nation in a report on Tuesday said, gold...

Traffic woes Traffic congestion on city roads is increasing day by day with no solution in sight. There must be some way out. Officials of...

Lakshmi Puri :Yayi Bayam Diouf became the first woman to fish in her small rural fishing village in Senegal despite initially being told by the...

Sabria Chowdhury Balland :“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the...

Dhaka’s mosquito problem I am deeply concerned by the news reports stating an increase in the outbreak of mosquitoes in Dhaka. It is inconvenient to...

Rafia Zakaria :Many of the women’s shelters currently operating in Afghanistan have been founded and funded during the Nato/US presence over the past decade.As is...

Donald Haider :In 2013, United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), a $9 million nonprofit, joined with Seguin Services, a $27 million operation, creating UCP Seguin Chicago. Looking...

NEWS report said the government is amending the Marine Fishing Act of 1983 with an amendment now at the finalizing stage with the provision of...

NEWS about loan irregularities from Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) just after one month of the reconstitution of the bank’s Board of Directors with the...

Marriage age We support the bill, fixing 18 years as marriage bar for the females, with relaxation in special cases, passed in the Parliament. We...

Tom Plate :The need for China and the United States to come together in a persistently adult geopolitical two-some has never been more urgent. Gamesmanship...

M. A. Jabbar :Every year like elsewhere in the globe International Women’s Day is being observed in Bangladesh on 08 March in a befitting manner....