Editorial

Jeff Tyson :Emerging market countries will now have more influence and access to capital at the International Monetary Fund. More than five years after the...

Klaus Ammann and Marcel Kuntz. :New methods of influencing genetic traits in diverse organisms are set to become available at an increasing speed and low...

TWENTY-FIVE out of 53 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export targets for the July-December period of the current fiscal year (2015-16)....

A NATIONAL DAILY has reported that the government pays no attention to the country’s migrant workers who toil abroad to boost the economy without getting...

Undiplomatic moveIran suffered a diplomatic setback in the first week of the current month when some rowdy elements set the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran...

Christian Ewert :On page 19 of the strategy, there is one promise with which I am particularly satisfied. I say ‘particularly’ because it concerns an...

John Loyd.:A little over a quarter of a century ago, Europe celebrated the healing of the schism that Communism enforced on it since World War...

World Bank featured story :In 2015, the World Bank updated the nominal poverty line from $1.25 to $1.90 per day, but the incidence of global...

THE gruesome murder of five members of a family that include men and women along with two teenage in their family bedrooms in Narayanganj on...

EXPERTS’ recommendations at a seminar on Banking sector in Bangladesh and its reform and governance on Saturday in the city calling for merger of weak...

THE United Nations warned Syria’s warring parties on Thursday that starvation sieges were a war crime as it pushed for an easing of the dire...

AT least 60 workers were killed and 125 injured in the country’s ship-breaking yard accidents in the last five and a half years. As reported...