Editorial

A recent news item published in The New Nation has exposed the ugly loopholes of our education system. It said, the government approval to 204...

BANGLADESH is now witnessing probably the worst time for children to grow up as an increasing number of kids are often being killed by their...

Laura Bosco :(From previous issue)DPKO launched a board of inquiry to investigate the events, but only publicly released a one-paged summary of its findings, consistently...

World Cup under new format :The football federations of the all six continents endorsed the FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s proposal for 48 teams in the...

Sundeep Waslekar :The changing of the guard on the 38th floor of the United Nations building in New York, with António Guterres taking over for...

Ang Yuen Yuen :Luminaries and experts convened (in October) in Washington, DC, to debate the age-old problem of ending global poverty. At the annual meetings...

Laura Bosco :Improving the accountability of United Nations peacekeepers will be a key challenge for new Secretary-General António Guterres. The UN currently deploys more than...

A dangerous tendency :A few days back a massive fire broke out at the DCC Market of Gulshan-1, leading to huge losses for shop owners,...

TOO much tourist rush to Sundarbans in the dry winter season is poising big threat to the bio-diversity to the world’s biggest Mangrove forests. A...

THE Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] Kazi Reazul Hoque has publicly expressed frustration over the organization’s limitations to protect people’s basic human...

Care the Guest Birds I was shocked by yesterday’s report on The Daily Star highlighting the killing of migratory birds. Poachers’ trapping of birds and...

Barack H Obama :(From previous issue)Now, we can and should argue about the best approach to the problem. But to simply deny the problem not...