Editorial

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. Abul Kashem Mozumder :The nation commemorated the return of Bangabandhu as the return of saint. It was same as...

THE Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon’s decision to allow the vendor to run their shops on footpath at Gulistan and in greater...

THE biodiversity of the country’s only offshore coral Island of St Martin’s away from Cox’s Bazar coastline is under threat as the tourists are routinely...