Editorial

THE withdrawal date of nomination for Municipal election passed on December 13 and media reports said seven mayoral candidates appeared to have no contestants in...

A NATIONAL daily reported on Monday that use of polythene bags, which were earlier banned in 2000 by a law, has made the come back...

Bad days for FIFA The Swiss Police and the US FBI are jointly working to make football ‘a game of farce’ in the name of...

Xueman Wang :More than 180 countries have submitted their intended national climate plans to get on a low-carbon development pathway ahead of COP21 climate talks,...

Francoise Grossetête :In Oslo today, the Nobel Committee will award the 2015 prize for medicine for ground-breaking research on killer diseases. In the year that...

Pierre Longeray :With just 24 hours left to hammer out their remaining disagreements, international negotiators are now entering the homestretch of the Paris climate summit...

THE New Nation reported that Canada received the first batch of 163 Syrian refugees on Saturday in Montreal, which is part of 300 Syrian migrants,...

THE nation is observing the ‘Martyred Intellectuals Day’ today with solemnity remembering them in pain and sorrows. They were the best sons of the soil...

A VERNACULAR daily on Saturday reported that around 4391 acre lands of Bangladesh Railway have been dispossessed by political goons and influentials across the country....

Ringing bell of WW III! Many critics say that Russia has been preparing for the Third World War. As part of the preparation, Russian Armed...

Jean Bricmont :It started as a reaction to the attitude of the Left during the 1999 Kosovo war, which was largely accepted on humanitarian grounds...

Elke Zander and Anja Werner :We are expressing our concern over the untenable situation of refugees in Belgium, and to urgently call on the Belgian...