Editorial

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...

Opening employment options Unemployment in Bangladesh has been a serious problem particularly for the educated youths. More and more students are pursuing IT and business...

Dr. Palitha Kohona :UNGA 70 formally commenced on Sep. 15. In accordance with custom, it elected a new President, Denmark’s Mogens Lykketoft, who has picked...

Christy Allison and Maria Brindlmayer :Education is something that most people in wealthy countries think they understand – most attended schools themselves and have their...

A WORLD Economic Forum’s (WEF) report released in Bangladesh on Wednesday said Bangladesh has moved two notches up in this year’s Global Competitiveness Index, riding...

NEWS reports said market interventions by the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) have made little impact in escalating prices of essentials in the kitchen...

Syrian war games The Russian government may start war against the ISIL, a fanatic organisation fighting against the Syrian government of President Assad.. For this,...

Asha Iyer Kumar :Recently, when a middle-aged man in the Indian state of Kerala sued superstar Mammootty over a soap advertisement claiming that the product...

Safety should be the priority for such journeys, even if it means bringing down the number of pilgrims and rejecting those who have taken the...

Carey L. Biron and Greg Scruggs :When member states come together to finalize the sustainable development goals later this week, they will not only be...

THE disclosure that 75 percent of all cell phones out of one crore so far verified by the government has come as a big shock...