Editorial

MEDIA reports on Friday said an envoy of the Myanmar government is due in the city on January 11 to discuss the Rohingya issue with...

Martin Khor :Yet another new year has dawned. But 2017 will be a year like no other.There will be a thunderous clash of policies, economies...

AN alarming situation is obtaining in the country’s medical education where lack of adequate number of teachers, class rooms and other infrastructures is adding to...

MEDIA reports on Thursday said Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has asked the government to convert its outstanding dues worth Tk 27,419 crore into subsidy although...

Law of natural justice The proposed ‘Citizenship Law-2016’ contradicts the principle of natural justice. According to the proposed law, son(s) will be held equally responsible...

Sir Frank Peters :France this week joined the growing number of awakened nations to recognise the horror and futility of corporal punishment to children and...

Poor cricket team management We are surprised by the behaviour of the team management in omitting spinner specialist Mehedi Miraj from the teams that disgracefully...

Simon Johnson :US President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with rich people. According to the latest count, his nominees include five billionaires and six...

Jeffrey D. Sachs :American foreign policy is at a crossroads. The United States has been an expanding power since its start in 1789. It battled...

Howard Davies : The financial crisis of 2008 gave a big boost to the global standard-setters. Suddenly, the Basel Committee (which sets the standards for...

THE annual development programme (ADP) is quite slow as the Planning Minister himself said on Tuesday after half yearly review of the progress under fiscal...

A DEVASTATING fire once again gutted a sprawling two storied city market at Gulshan-1 reducing at least 300 shops to ashes rendering shop owners penniless....