Editorial

CRUELTY against children has become an obnoxious syndrome of moral degradation and disorder that leads society to mortally bankrupt as reflected in the recent killing...

Con Coughlin :As ceasefires go, the cessation of hostilities in Syria negotiated by the US and Russia has hardly got off to the most auspicious...

Hashim Thaçi :Europe’s youngest country – Kosovo – celebrated the eighth anniversary of its independence earlier this month. The independence of Kosovo was our dream,...

Priti Patnaik :Weeding out good speculation from bad is good in principle, but difficult to implement. The initiative to ban financial speculation of agricultural commodities...

Upcoming UP polls :Nomination filing has ended for the upcoming Union Parishad election, the first phase elections to over 700 union parishads will be held...

CAPITAL shortfall in state owned banks (SoBs) has become chronic forcing them to regularly depend on recapitalization of their working capital from annual budget. As...

We are proud of our cricketers Our heartiest congratulations to the Bangladesh Cricket Team, for their superb performance. They have made us exceedingly proud. By...

Yanis Varoufakis :“Europe will be democratized or it will disintegrate!” That maxim is more than a catchphrase from the manifesto of the Democracy in Europe...

Lucy P. Marcus :Corruption is a global scourge, sometimes becoming so deeply ingrained in countries that combating it seems impossible. In January, Transparency International released...

Patrick Clerens :Brussels residents may not know it, but their white bags help power their public transport. These white bags are filled with residual waste,...

THE safety of ATM banking appears to be at bigger stake than what was primarily presumed following the breaking of several cash windows of two...

A NATIONAL daily reported on Thursday that despite remarkable remittance inflows of $9.92 billion in the July-February period of FY15, it relatively decreased by 1.15...