Editorial

Free all roads from tolls We heartily congratulate Minister Obaidul Quader for being elected as General Secretary of Awami League. In light of the Prime...

Baher Kamal :Almost inadvertently, humankind is getting closer everyday to the point of no-return towards what could be called the ‘climate doomsday’. Now, globally averaged...

Emilio Godoy :“We as mayors have to govern midsize cities as if they were capital cities,” said Héctor Mantilla, city councilor of Floridablanca, the third-largest...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :From the 1980s, various studies purported to portray the public sector as a cesspool of abuse, inefficiency, incompetence and corruption. Books and...

SMALL and medium traders are set to observe a day-long strike in their business establishments under the banner of Byabosayee Oikkya Forum tomorrow to protest...

NEWS report said six years passed since the concerned government authorities have identified risky buildings in the capital, but they are yet to take measures...

Make salt prices reasonable Adding iodine in edible salt was made mandatory by government two decades ago because of goiter – an uncommon disease in...

Mike Cole :It is a commonly held belief in the UK that racism can only be related to skin colour. However, the focus in the...

Linde Zuidema. :Over the past few years, power plants and heating installations across Europe – spurred on by government subsidies – have switched from burning...

Bjørn Lomborg :Global free trade provides the greatest opportunity to improve human welfare over the next decade and a half. It has already helped lift...

BANGLADESH Cricket team played superb and secured the first ever victory in the Test match over England on Sunday at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium....

DHAKA University came on the headlines of national dailies again for leakage of questions of ‘Gha’ unit admission test for students to various departments under...