Editorial

THE first and only election of three district councils in Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) was held in 1989. At that time these were known as...

BARELY two weeks into the gruesome attack on college student Khadiza Akter Nargis in Sylhet, ruling party-blessed miscreants beat up and hacked four more girls...

A TEACHER of mathematics in an elite school in the capital does not know the correct spelling in Bengali of Tettrish (33) is a fact...

Growing Sino-Bangla ties It is truly a blessing for us that Bangladesh’s location off the Bay of Bengal and its vast and promising work-force are...

Jacek Rostowski :Little more than three months after the United Kingdom’s decision in June to leave the European Union, Brexit politics are careening out of...

Robert P. Murphy, Patrick J. Michaels, and Paul C. “Chip” KnappenbergerSome proponents of federal policies to combat climate change are arguing for a federal carbon...

Dani Rodrik :“One of the crucial challenges” of our era “is to maintain an open and expanding international trade system.” Unfortunately, “the liberal principles” of...

BANGLADESH Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the telecom regulator, is set to formulate a directive for SIM deactivation process after a huge number of subscribers found...

Gains from President Xi’s visit It is truly a blessing for us that Bangladesh’s location off the Bay of Bengal and its vast and promising...

Brigitte Miksa :Carlos Barientos III was born at 6:45 on the evening of December 31, 1964, a few miles northwest of Honolulu. This year, he...

Joseph E. Stiglitz :As I have traveled around the world in recent weeks, I am repeatedly asked two questions: Is it conceivable that Donald Trump...

Mohamed A. El-Erian :The relationship between politics and economics is changing. Advanced-country politicians are locked in bizarre, often toxic, conflicts, instead of acting on a...