Editorial

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...

Good luck to new UN Secy General We welcome Antonio Guterres as the next secretary general of UN. It is expected that many good changes...

Mark Seddon :Today the United Nations security council has confirmed the former Portuguese prime minister and occasionally outspoken former head of the UN High Commission...

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...

Phoebe Braithwaite :The International Criminal Court (ICC) will pay more attention to crimes of environmental destruction and land-grabs, according to a new policy paper published...

THE World Bank’s (WB) concerns in its latest economic update on Bangladesh has pointed out that new types of security uncertainties such as militant attacks...