Editorial

THE government is set to take up a $100 million project to introduce a private sector pension scheme and automate the insurance regulator. The three-year...

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

Md. Sazedul Islam :Local Government Division of LGRD and Cooperatives Ministry is going to organize the 6th South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-6) on January...

Sir Frank Peters :This coming Wednesday, January 13, 2016, is a date to celebrate and embrace. It marks the 5th Anniversary of the High Court...

THE city life was totally paralyzed yesterday as tens of thousands of Awami League activists and supporters landed on the streets by mid-day to gather...

THE government has approved six new private universities – two to be set up in capital Dhaka and one each in Chittagong, Khulna, Kushtia and...

Fall-outs of earthquake On the morning of January 4, 2016, tremors from a 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolted the whole of Bangladesh, leaving all of us...

Elayne Clift :They sit in a semi-circle, fully attentive. Some wear hijab, looking like Botticelli-painted nuns. Others reveal their hair, perhaps a headscarf wrapped loosely...

Mike Whitney :Yes and no. Yes, nuclear weapons are a credible deterrent but, no, that’s not why North Korea set off a hydrogen bomb last...

Dr. Syed Mansoob Murshed :Syed Mahbub Murshed was born over a hundred years ago on 11th January 1911. He passed away on 3rd April 1979....

ROAD accidents took heavy tolls on early Friday morning amidst thick winter fog killing nine people on both approach roads of Bangabandhu Bridge while the...

THE government has asked tannery owners to shift their factories from Hazaribagh to Industrial Park in Savar within 72 hours and failing which it would...