Editorial

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates :We live in extraordinary times. Each day seems to bring fresh headlines about an unfolding crisis – whether it is...

THE state-owned Janata Bank is planning to lower lending rates to single digit in 2016 to bring spur to investment by expansion of private sector...

IN spite of being dead, a 16-month old baby was kept on life support in Japan-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital at Jigatola in the city. As part...

Can BD make history? There is no doubt that stadiums looked deserted almost in every match of the underway U-19 Cricket World Cup, the coverage...

Barbara Matera :The successful adoption of the resolution on the external factors that represent hurdles to European female entrepreneurship was the result of months of...

Sarah Holzapfel and Heiner Janus :One way in which the SDGs could be implemented is to continue business as usual, and start selectively. Each country...

Rhys Williams :Europe and Africa have a long history of cooperation on economic, social and environmental development dating back to the Lomé Conventions of 1975....

ACCORDING to a national daily Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has reiterated on Monday that the government would take legal action against private schools which...

WHILE the country’s businesses are struggling to maintain a constant growth due to the seemingly hostile environment, implementation of the VAT and SD Act 2012...

Allira Attwill :The recent outbreak of Zika virus and its spread to 23 countries – mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean – has prompted...

FINANCE Minister AMA Muhith has said state-owned banks specially Sonali Bank and BASIC Bank have sustained serious irregularities in the past several years and they...

AS per the media reports, students of over 50 schools out of 262 government primary schools in Monirampur Upazila and at other places in Jessore...