Editorial

Over 1200 Santal families evicted from their land in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha district are now homeless and living in the shelter of others while many...

Laura Tyson :An economic development revolution lies literally in the palm of a single hand. As mobile phones and digital technologies rapidly spread around the...

Saeed Qureshi :Unlike other countries, the votes casting by the citizens to elect the American president don’t take place on one day. There is an...

Syria has turned into the greatest catastrophe of our time. Over the past five years, Syrian victims have been subjected to chemical and gas attacks,...

Emilio Godoy :Synthetic biology, geoengineering and the recognition of ancestral knowledge are the issues that have generated the most heated debate in the United Nations...

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram : The World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2017, subtitled ‘Equal Opportunity for All’, continues to mislead despite the many...

GARMENT workers face daunting challenges to unionization, and remain at risk of interference and threats by factories three years after the Rana Plaza building collapse,...

A TOTAL lawlessness is dominating the country’s drug production and marketing making patients helpless victims of fake, substandard and adulterated drugs while producers are selling...

Dominique Von Rohr :Up to two billion people live in countries affected by violence, conflict and fragility. Often, such political instability goes hand in hand...

Lyndal Rowlands :UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told UN Security Council members of credible reports of civilians in Aleppo being summarily executed during an emergency meeting...

Thalif Deen :Come 2017, the United Nations will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s longstanding unresolved political problems firmly entrenched on the...

Let 2017 be peaceful :We are on the doorstep of 2017, we wait for a new year with hope for a better future but this...