Editorial

Caitlin Byrne :It’s a wrap. China’s G20 leadership has come to a close in Hangzhou after G20 leaders were treated to a spectacular show on...

A NATIONAL business daily on Tuesday reported that businesspeople are lining up in long queue to avail government licenses to install LPG (liquefied petroleum gas)...

BANGLADESH Under-16 women’s football team ended as the unbeaten champion of Group C of the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship qualifiers when they thrashed United Arab...

Uri Friedman :What if the United Nations didn’t exist? It’s a question easily answered, because for nearly all of human history, it didn’t. History “teaches...

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,...