Editorial

THOUSANDS of Bangladeshi fortune-seekers are in jails of 50 countries where they are being captivated without any legal assistance and unable to communicate with their...

OVER two crore people are still deprived of arsenic-free drinking water in non-fulfillment of a commitment made by the ruling Awami League in its 2008...

Barrister M. A. Muid Khan : “As is well known, the referendum on whether the United Kingdom should leave or remain in the European Union produced...

Nicholas Rutherford :When disaster strikes, the immediate needs of affected populations are fairly basic: food, shelter, and water. Longer-term priorities tend to slip off the...

The Quranic teachings are straight and simple :The ISIL beheaded six of its own fighters on the charge of their attempt to desert the battlefield,...

AS PER media report, the University Grants Commission has declared illegal the higher education certificates signed by the acting Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of 18 private universities....

THE High Court order on Thursday to local administration to ensure security and free movement of the members of ethnic Santals community in some villages...

Mute Schimpf :If approved, these would be the first new GM crops legally authorised for cultivation in the EU in almost 20 years, at a...

Exception is also a rule We never thought that Donald Trump will become the next US President but it seems that sometimes the unthinkable happens,...

Ibne Siraj :Ban on the entire Russian team at the Paralympics in Rio is the latest example of how sport has become a front in...

Lyndal Rowlands :The Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters into force on Friday 4 November, just days before the UN’s 22nd climate change conference begins in...

NEWS report on Thursday said that the two City Corporations in Dhaka have demanded block allocation of Tk.5,000 crore from the budget to carry out...