Editorial

VIOLENCE against children including sexual abuse across the country is on the rise while the Police Chief and Home Minister marked the present law and...

Mohamed A. El-Erian :Saudi Arabia has captured the world’s attention with the announcement of an ambitious agenda, called Vision 2030, aimed at overhauling the structure...

Dan Pallotta :The nonprofit sector has limbs. It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter...

Roger Bootle :Last week saw yet another warning about the dire economic costs of Brexit, this time from the IMF. This followed similar warnings from...

THE government plan to allow private sector to export coarse variety of rice seems to be a good option. This is because the country is...

ATM booth scams detected again in the city, reported the national dailies on Thursday raising question what safety measures banks and the banking sector regulators...

Football unfriendly BFF With the end of the Independence Cup Football tournament in the first week of the current month, the Bangladesh Football Federation has...

Professional hazards in journalism We expect journalists to be objective. But the objectivity in journalism varies from society to society. Journalists around the globe often...

Dick Roche :When the proposals that led to the RED (Renewable Energy Directive) were introduced, few could have envisaged the rancorous and frequently distorted debate...

Mohshin Habib :Are there Islamic State militants in Bangladesh? Are they operating here through their Bangladeshi affiliates? Honestly, we, the Bangladeshi ordinary people have no...

THE headmaster of a Narayangonj High School who was publicly humiliated for his alleged disparaging remarks on religion in presence of the local MP AKM...

THE breaking out of a fire at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday afternoon has come...