Editorial

Jim Schaffer :Presidential campaigns used to exalt a candidate’s patriotism and public service, if not sacrifices. However, as Benjamin Soskis points out in “Charitable Judgment,”...

An engineer of outstanding talent :Recently I have come across a fascinating news report about a young woman engineer from BUET who is breaking into...

A NATIONAL daily on Monday reported that both the City Corporations are allowing ruling party men to set up makeshift cattle markets on roads and...

CHINA and the United States, which are responsible for 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions ratified on Saturday the Paris climate agreement to cut...

Tax on meditation The goverment has imposed tax on meditation courses which is not only illogical but also an immoral decision. Meditation is a self-development...

Stephen S. Roach :Despite all the hand-wringing over the vaunted China slowdown, the Chinese economy remains the single largest contributor to world GDP growth. For...

Jacek Rostowski :A Donald Trump presidency would be a catastrophe for NATO and the West. Aside from threatening to withdraw the United States from the...

Steve Davis :Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio,...

SALT crisis has hit the market selling it at Tk 42 per kg before the Eid-ul-Azha when use of salt in tannery industry shoots up...

NEWS reports on Monday said nearly half of the country’s 84 private universities are functioning without Vice-Chancellors and are mostly run by acting VCs. Moreover,...

Sara Perria :Myanmar’s government has responded to pressure from the international community to tackle religious tensions and persecution of Muslims in Rakhine State by appointing...

Lyndal Rowlands :The UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals apply to all 193 UN member states, yet one year in some say that rich countries aren’t...