Editorial

Jim Al-Khalili :Muslim governments know that economic growth, military power, and national security benefit greatly from technological advances. Many of them have sharply increased funding...

Bill Emmott :Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain to some...

DEVELOPMENT spending in the first seven months of fiscal 2015-16 is the lowest in six years. The government has been able to spend Tk 27,542...

A GLOBAL mobile phone giant has found in a new region-wide survey that 49 percent of school students in Bangladesh have been victims of cyber...

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...

Endless traffic jam The construction work of Moghbazar-Malibagh flyover has been going on at snail’s pace adding woes to the city commuters. The earlier deadline...

Jamie J. Hagen :Every day, 507 women and adolescent girls die due to a lack of reproductive health services in humanitarian emergencies. There are now...

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

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...