Editorial

THE disclosure in a media report on Monday said that during the fiscal 2015-16 Dhaka WASA employees cashed overtime allowances twice as much of their...

NEWS report in a national daily on Monday said rapid urbanization around the city has reduced the size of the detailed area plan (DAP) of...

Conflict in Syria More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into...

Mario Osava :Brazil’s first gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics gave it a new multipurpose heroine, Rafaela Silva, whose defeat of the favourites...

Rami G Khouri :Week after week, year after year, the endless stream of cruelties and occasional barbarism across the Middle East seems only to widen...

WITH the HSC results made public, fights now start for admission to universities where the limitation of seats remains the most prohibitive factor for admission...

MEDIA report said that despite remarkable remittance inflows in previous years, it plummeted about 29 percent year-on-year to $1 billion in July this year. Low...

Barry Eichengreen :Following the International Monetary Fund’s controversial actions in the Asian financial crisis of 1998, when it conditioned liquidity assistance to distressed countries on...

DHAKA North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq on Friday said, as reported in the press, that the City Corporation would take legal action against...

PRINTING of 11.50 crore text books for primary students has already been delayed for a month this year and this delay may go further. Thus...

More expert electricians needed Electricity is the indispensible driving force of development and the ingredient to enhance the standard of living nowadays. Expansion of electricity...

Ali H. Mokdad :Data can save lives. Without it, we wouldn’t know that smoking causes lung cancer and coronary disease, that helmets reduce death rates...