Editorial

IN a tragic turn of events, three newborn babies died at a private hospital in Dhaka early this week where they were hospitalized earlier. The...

Food – so invaluable ! A Rohingya mother named Mabiya Khatun said after granted asylum that she had married off her young daughter to an...

Water on Mars The NASA scientists claimed to have gathered the evidence of water in Mars. The scientists have been searching for sign of life...

Dilshad Hossain Dodul :What is the definition of ‘news’? Most of us tend to define news as the information about unusual events. When something unusual...

Talmiz Ahmad :Syria has been in the throes of civil conflict for nearly five years. In this period, a quarter of a million people have...

Sir Frank Peters :In every child there are the makings of a saint. It’s absurd to have such heavenly qualities beaten out of them in...

EVEN though 15 months have passed, the University Grants Commission (UGC) have failed to introduce a ranking system for the private universities to promote quality...

THE transport operators were found on Thursday defying the government-fixed transport fares as private bus and minibus passengers in the capital and Port City Chittagong...

Gregory Beck :Impressed with their success in Kenya, the donor installed state-of-the-art hand pumps along Somalia’s Jubba River, confident that community members would also benefit...

World Bank Story :The World Bank Group has set itself the target of bringing down the number of people living in extreme poverty to less...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Rob Vos :A new post-2015 international development agenda is to be officially launched next week at a U.N. summit in New...

The avoidable Mina tragedy :We are horror stricken, outraged and feeling deep sorrow by the incident in which more than thousand pilgrims died and hundreds...