Editorial

Kevin Rudd :As we pass the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and approach the appointment of the next U.N. secretary-general for...

Ray Offenheiser :It has become fashionable to suggest that foreign aid is becoming obsolete in our modern era. But as world leaders gather in New...

THE government plan that public universities should take written test and oral exams for recruitment of meritorious teachers to curb irregularities and make a proper...

RESCUERS have been able to recover 27 bodies from the sunken launch ML Oishi, which had sunken in Sandhya river in Barisal on Wednesday. It...

A NATIONAL daily reported on Wednesday that India is sidetracking the call by Bangladesh’s Minister for Irrigation and Water Resource Management to hold immediate meeting...

THE banality of social cruelty are now surpassing all imagination as the news report said a grown up boy has set his father and mother...

Welcome Afghanistan cricketers The Afghan cricketers are now in Dhaka to play three one-day internationals against Bangladeshi counterparts at Mirpur, Dhaka on September 25, 28,...

Barry Carpenter :In the coming months, European leaders have the opportunity to move the EU economy forward for generations to come with a deal that...

James Munn :Sixty-five million people across the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster. Sixty-five million people live in the...

Greater economic role of women Today, women are playing a vital role in all spheres of life. They are no longer confined within the four...

Carl Bildt :Next year marks the centennial of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement that paved the way for Israel’s founding in 1948, and for...

Gordon Brown :In his 1952 novel, Invisible Man, the late Ralph Ellison famously portrayed American blacks as silent, long-suffering, and entirely unnoticed by the majority...