Editorial

NEWS report from Rajshahi said 30 cattle traders had fallen ill on Monday after taking food from a local restaurant closer to a cattle market...

THE relocation of Bangladesh embassy from Libya to Tunis, the capital of neighbouring Tunisia, has left the Bangladeshi nationals almost unprotected in Libya at the...

Scale down energy price Ignoring people’s protest the government went ahead and raised the price of gas and electricity from September 1, 2015. This move...

Angelic Young :From late 2001 to 2007, I was a frontline civilian – one of thousands of people serving in areas of instability, crisis and...

Arjun Goswami :Countries in Asia and the Pacific grow at different rates and have differing social and economic priorities. In Asia there is no serious...

Masum Billah :The World Vision, a NGO working in Bangladesh since 1971 focusing on child care, concern and protection along with its other areas of...

THE new pay scale for government servants as approved by the cabinet on Monday will almost double their basic pay in an unprecedented move; which...

M. A. Jabbar :UNESCO in 1965 declared September 8 as International Literacy Day. Since 1966 the day is observed worldwide among the member countries. On...

Bahauddin Foizee :The Middle East, especially the West Asian region, is the most volatile region in the world. The major reason of such regional instability...

Let us target Asian Cup Football :Bangladesh football team will meet Jordan in a World Cup 2018 and the Asian Cup 2019 qualifying round match...

NATIONAL dailies have highlighted how the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has increased water-tariff by 5 percent without any public hearing. The price...

BUSINESSMEN at a seminar on Sunday demanded that the government should improve infrastructural and logistical facilities in the country’s land ports to boost regional trade.Although...