Editorial

Kemal Dervis :Over the last few decades, oil prices have fluctuated widely – ranging from $10 to $140 a barrel – posing a challenge to...

Elena Ianchovichina and Shanta Devaraja :The collapse of oil prices to levels unseen since the early 2000s has shaken markets and confidence in the health...

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Hamid Rashid :Developing countries are bracing for a major slowdown this year. According to the UN report World Economic Situation and...

THE nation observed the BDR Mutiny Day yesterday with due solemnity in tears and payers remembering the martyred officers who lost their lives in bloody...

MUSCLE flexing, intimidation, confinement and even kidnapping the opposition aspirants by the ruling party men to put them aside from the races of the first...

Hatirjheel bus service THE Hatirjheel Project provided the much-needed east-west connectivity. It was inaugurated and opened to the public in January 2013, affording citizens of...

Bjørn Lomborg :Some $1 trillion was lost to corruption last year. This is money that was not available for expanding health care, broadening access to...

Habibur Rahman :It’s an utterly haunting recollection of my lost son Shaheed Colonel Quadrat Elahi Rahman Shafique, ndc, psc. From his very childhood he appeared...

FINANCE Minister AMA Muhith’s statement in the Jatiya Sangsad Tuesday describing how 27 bank officials, 56 business organizations and eight surveyor firms were instrumental in...

DHAKA has been ranked as the 214th least liveable city among the world’s 230 cities in this year, which focused in a survey titled “Quality...

Charles Tannock :Recently, there have been reports over the escalating tensions in the South China Sea, with countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan...

Mark Green and Rob Mosbacher :We begin this transition year in American politics at a time of anxiety about an increasingly dangerous world and the...