Editorial

Lakshmi Puri :Can you imagine an entire day without access to your mobile phone, laptop, or even to the internet? In our rapidly changing world,...

Aranya Syed :The ICC World Twenty20 (T20 World Cup) is scheduled to start today in Nagpur, India with the First Round match between Zimbabwe and...

Classic movies I have not yet seen A J Kardar’s famous movie ‘Jago Hua Sabera’ (Day shall dawn) released early sixties. But I have read...

Michael McKeon :US Trade Representative Michael Froman and EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström meet this week for a stocktaking session in Washington to review the...

Ambassador Walther Lichem :In 1911, more than one million men and women attended rallies to commemorate the first International Women’s Day. Demonstrators advocated for an...

Reine-Claude Mader :Businesses complain about the so-called “gold-plating”, which they define as overregulation and excessive standards due to the transposition of legislation into national law...

DEMONSTRATORS are on a ‘four-day long march’ from Dhaka to Khulna to protest the construction of Rampal Power Plant, which people believe to be a...

WITH the concern about the security requirements in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, the UK government has banned air cargoes originating directly from Dhaka until further...

Stress on individual events in sports The number of the individual events in the World Olympic and the Asian Games is almost 99 percents of...

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum :Over the past two weeks, I have heard and read many questions, comments, and news stories regarding recent changes to...

Thorbjørn Jagland :As the refugee crisis continues, Europe’s governments want to ensure that their asylum rules are perceived as fair and not open to abuse....

Kemal Dervis : “Out of ammo?” The Economist recently asked of monetary policymakers. Stephen Roach has called the move by major central banks – including the...