Editorial

A DISPARATE coalition of Tunisian unionists, employers, lawyers and human rights activists has won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to prevent the Jasmine...

LINGERING shortage of train operators and other essential staff for the past two decades has hobbled the services of Bangladesh Railway, the largest public transport...

Serge Piolat :Like many other European manufacturing sectors, the production of textile and clothing goods was significantly offshored to the low-cost countries in the 1990s.At...

Nicholas Noe :Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the United Nations General Assembly, defending his country’s support for the government of Syrian President Bashar...

Madi Sharma :On 8 October, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held its inaugural plenary session for the new five year term. The Committee...

Save our friendly image :The people of our country have a reputation of to be amiable and welcoming to our guests. Foreigners visiting Bangladesh for...

IN death index-2015, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for 80 countries Bangladesh’s position rests at 79; which appears to be a worst case....

NEWS reports in an English daily said more than 2,000 people were arrested on an average everyday as the police continued their ‘special drive’ across...

Till Bruckner :Over the past two decades, support by USAID and other Western donors has led to an explosion in the number of think tanks...

Amy Goldman :The global development community has spent the last three years in conversation on how to eradicate extreme poverty and structure the now-ratified Sustainable...

Bert Brunekreef :Air quality in much of Europe is poor. More than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to the inhalation of fine particles in...

Deepening crisis in Syria Russia is sending troops in Syria, ignoring the USA and the NATO warning in order to wipe out the anti-Assad forces...