Editorial

Improvement in poverty scenario Recent World Bank poverty estimates reflect the remarkable achievements made by Bangladesh. From 40 million poor people seven years ago, the...

Nicola Mendelsohn. :Businesses are increasingly using new digital technologies to profile, advertise, and sell their products. Technology means a company is able to connect with...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage :The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) advanced its commitment to the safety of journalists after adopting a groundbreaking resolution with measures for states...

Beate Sjafjell :The convergence of crises that we face as a global society, with its grand challenge of how to achieve social progress for all...

TODAY is the Holy Ashura, the day of noble sacrifice of Imam Husein, the grandson of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SM). The Muslim Ummah observes...

IN an unpleasant development as media report said Bangladesh Cricket team captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and middle-order batsman Sabbir Rahman have been fined 20 per...

Tail-enders should take more share I remember a time in Bangladesh cricket when tail enders would make more runs than the openers and prevent the...

Masum Al Jaki :Like smoking, the people’s addiction to fossil fuels is incredibly damaging to our health. In fact, cigarette smoking, particularly the indoor version...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Lawrence H. Summers and Andres Velasco :Finance and development ministers from around the world, who are gathered in Washington this week, will...

EXTREME poverty rate in the country has dropped to 12.9 percent in 2015-16 as per a report of World Bank that The New Nation published...

THE country’s ceramic manufacturers and exporters are immensely suffering since the US cancelled GSP facility for Bangladesh in 2013. Until the scraping of the duty-free...

Baher Kamal :When the United Nations elaborated its latest report on the impact of what it calls “the dramatic shift towards urban life,” it tried...