Recruitment of varsity teachers must be apolitical
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...
Editorial
A launch accident that killed so many people
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...
UN refugee summit was a wasted opportunity
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...
End stalemate to Teesta water sharing agreement
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...
Cruelties must not be allowed to destroy families
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...
Readers` Forum
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,...
Science-based standards in TTIP
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...
Readers` Forum
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...
Obama`s chance for Middle East peace
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...
Education and the invisible child
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...
Saving refugees to save Europe
George Soros :The refugee crisis in Europe was already pushing the European Union toward disintegration when, on June 23, it helped drive the British to...
There will be no refugees if Assad is not protected but ended
UN MEMBER-STATES adopted a non-binding political declaration on Monday to tackle the biggest refugee crisis since Second World War amid dire warnings about rising xenophobia...