Editorial

Tanveer Hossain Khan :Education is a process through which human beings stay close together. It is important to recognise the essential role of education in...

Dambisa Moyo :Over the past decade, income inequality has come to be ranked alongside terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and economic stagnation as one of the...

Anu Mahmud :It is encouraging to note that at a recent cabinet meeting workers right to form trade unions in the country’s Export Processing Zones...

AMID the worldwide security concerns of trespassing militant and terrorist elements and drug and human trafficking, airports have become the focal point of all-out security...

DESPITE the gradual decline in the number of dropouts at the Secondary level since 2008, grade eight students accounted for almost half of those who...

George Friedman :British Prime Minister David Cameron has negotiated a new relationship with Brussels. The deal, reached with European leaders on 19 February, addresses some...

Françoise Girard :Mosquitoes know no boundaries, and neither does fear. As public-health experts grapple with the Zika virus, panic continues to spread around the world....

Brahma Chellaney :When identifying threats to Himalayan ecosystems, China stands out. For years, the People’s Republic has been engaged in frenzied damming of rivers and...

Proliferation of coaching centres :Private coaching centres are responsible for the deterioration of the quality of education in the country. These are involved in all...

THE government has decided to halt fertilizer production from the next month diverting the gas supplies to the power plants, which aims at increasing generation...

THE ATM theft at some city points early this month by fraudsters revealed in the hindsight the bigger stake that the country’s ATM banking is...

Life in slums The destruction of rural economy forced many rural people to move to the capital and other cities. Many of them now live...