The US has its own refugee crisis
Elizabeth Holtzman :As the coauthor, with Senator Ted Kennedy, of the Refugee Act of 1980, I am dismayed at the US government’s iron-fisted response to...
Editorial
Poor countries get smaller share of foreign aid
Tom Murphy :The world’s poorest countries are getting poorer when it comes to expanding global foreign aid spending, shows new data from the Organization for...
Stealing of public money openly and with no shame
DIRECTORATE of Food (DoF) recently paid Tk 90 crore to a company for importing about 1 lakh tonnes of inedible wheat from France defying all...
Politicians involved in illegal gas lines
AS per a national daily reports in Dhaka district and beyond, illegal gas pipelines were extended since 2010 with the direct nexus of locally influential...
Connecting the Red Sea
Fahd Al Rasheed :The Red Sea has played a pivotal role in global trade for millennia. In the time of the pharaohs, it was at...
China’s crisis of miscommunication
Zhang Jun :At a forum in Canberra last year, Andrew Sheng quipped, “China is transparent, but only in the Chinese sense.” The statement provoked laughter...
More transparency needed for better justice system
José Inácio Faria :In 2009, the EU established an overall policy for the production and promotion of energy from renewable sources in the European Union.A...
Urgent initiative needed for Ganges water
MEMBERS of Bangladesh-India joint committee on Thursday monitored the Ganges water flow at Hardinge Bridge, Pabna to see whether the lower riparian country was receiving...
Challenge is how to free Syria from Russian occupation
MAJOR powers agreed on Friday to a pause in combat in Syria, but Russia pressed on with its relentless bombing in support of its ally...
Readers’ Forum
Congratulation to the booters When the whole country plunged into disappointment and frustration because of the cricket debacle, football brought good news to us and...
Readers’ Forum
Absence of professional approach Of the U-19 Cricket World Cup, professional approach decided the fate of the second semifinal match between the hosts Bangladesh and...
Five truths about terrorism
Joseph S. Nye :American politics has been captured by terrorists. In December 2015, polls showed that one in six Americans, some 16% of the population,...