Nobel Laureates speak for Rohingyas
THE letter of 23 eminent global citizens including 13 Nobel Laureates to members of the UN Security Council (SC) urging quick actions to stop the...
Editorial
Will Europe let Germany lead?
Marcel Fratzscher :The United Kingdom’s Brexit vote, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum defeat and subsequent resignation, and Donald Trump’s election as President of the...
The threat to global banking standards
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 international...
Big fall in remittance to seriously affect the nation
IT appears quite unusual as some study reports highlighted that the number of migrants in 2016 rose by 35 percent but our remittance instead of...
Burden and difficulties of paying tax
MEDIA report said tax lawyers have taken allegations before the notice of the Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR) that tax officials are harassing...
Readers’ Forum
Congratulation V’ball team We congratulate the Bangladesh Volleyball team for becoming champions in the Central Asia Zone qualification round of the World Cup Volleyball 2018...
Nepal’s post-earthquake recovery is going well
Annette Dixon :Twenty months after the earthquake that took lives and devastated livelihoods, people are receiving their first payments under a housing reconstruction project and...
Readers’ Forum
Promoting the youngsters The young generation are crazy about becoming popular on the internet. To do so, they engage themselves in various acts which are...
A growth agenda for China
Michael Spence, Qian Wan : At a time when the United States is poised to turn inward, China’s economic performance is more important globally than ever....
Connecting unrelated events is a side effect of terrorism
Dr. Marta Dominguez Diaz :On Monday (19 December), a man opened fire at a mosque in central Zurich, injuring three people. The same day, a...
Was 2016 the best year ever?
Bjørn Lomborg :According to popular wisdom, 2016 was a terrible year. Horrific terror attacks struck many countries. The Syrian crisis claimed tens of thousands of...
Trump is feared to be a disaster for his comment on the UN and siding with Netanyahu
US President-elect Donald Trump’s comment that the United Nations (UN) has become a talking club for world leaders and diplomats to get-together and ‘have a...