Editorial

Megan N. Roberts :In early January, new United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres made his first formal address to the Security Council. The topic-conflict prevention and...

STRIKE by intern doctors in government hospitals over the past several days left patients almost without treatment highlighting the need for compassion in our young...

LOANS worth thousands of crores of Taka that were rescheduled nearly two years ago for aiding the powerful borrowers have turned bad again. In fact,...

Ensuring road safety World Bank Statistics have reported an annual 85.6 fatalities from road accidents per 10,000 vehicles in Bangladesh, with 40 percent of the...

Scott Morris :There’s nothing novel these days about pointing out the ways in which the Trump administration is departing from a norm. But there’s been...

A. Mannan :I am a free but casual columnist, do not write so frequent, currently my mind is bogged down with interpretation of Articles 56(4),...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :International capital flows are now more than 60 times the value of trade flows. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is now...

NOT even three months into the presidency, the much anticipated populist and radical vision of US domestic and foreign policy has raised the burning question...

HORRIFIC facts about the country’s transport sector have come out in a news story that said more than 10 lakh unlicensed drivers — known as...

Martin Khor :Recently a very interesting article on why there are inequalities in access to health care and how medicine prices are beyond the reach...

Pablo Piacentini :The idea of creating Inter Press Service (IPS) arose in the early 1960s in response to awareness that a vacuum existed in the...

A huge quantity of dissolved salt will be discharged into the Dhaleshwari river from the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate as the Central Effluent Treatment Plant...