Editorial

With the Union Parishad (UP) elections in partisan lines coming closer, intra-party clashes among and political rivalries among ruling party candidates in absence of challengers...

 AS PER a news report in The New Nation on Tuesday rampant use of chemical pesticides, fertilizers and hormones are posing serious threats to safe...

Cruelty against children Child killing has become a common occurrence in our country. Children epitomise innocence, and such violence against them is unacceptable. In many...

Simon Johnson :After nearly a decade of crisis, bailout, and reform in the United States and the European Union, the financial system – both in...

Joseph S. Nye :Donald Trump’s lead in the race for the Republican Party’s nomination as its presidential candidate in November has caused consternation. The Republican...

Jeffrey D. Sachs :Syria is currently the world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe and most dangerous geopolitical hotspot. The Syrian people are caught in a bloodbath, with...

THE four rivers – Buriganga, Balu, Turag and Shitalakhya – around Dhaka city are already dead as the dissolved oxygen level in the water bodies...

NORTH KOREA has threatened “indiscriminate” nuclear strikes on the US and South Korea as the two begin their largest ever military drills. The exercises, Key...

DNCC Mayor, Please Now that DNCC has started drainage work at Banani and Uttara, a lot of streets are being dug up, hampering regular movement...

Nouriel Roubini :The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession?My answer...

Genon Jensen and Michael Warhurst :Over twenty years ago, scientists began to be concerned about chemicals that could disrupt our body’s sensitive hormone (or endocrine)...

M.A. Jabbar :International Women’s Day on March 08, again reminds us that women’s empowerment is the reflection of gender parity, which is the prerequisite for...