Editorial

Dr. Dhiman Chowdhury :The government recently announced Value Added Tax (VAT) @7.5% of tuition fee of the students of private universities. This caused agitation from...

Hardinge Bridge I read the Ameer Hamzah’s letter under caption ‘Hardinge Bridge: A wonderful engineering work’ published in your paper on last Thursday. In this...

Mahfuz R. Chowdhury :(From previous issue)Capitalism had originated in Europe to essentially supersede the social system known as feudalism. The ultimate transformation from feudalism to...

Saeed Qureshi :On September 2 president Obama secured enough Democratic Party votes “to prevent a resolution of disapproval of the Iran’s nuclear deal”. This development...

Gunnar Westberg :The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons had as members former leading politicians or military officers, among others a British Field...

BUSINESSPEOPLE said that the cost of doing business in Bangladesh is going up due to inadequate or dilapidated infrastructure, shortage of electricity and gas, and...

LATEST news reports indicate that an auto-rickshaw driver in Kishoreganj Sadar upazila was burned alive by a group of drug addicts. Apparently the drug addicts...

Football, a global game Football is not only the game of goal. It is also the game of excellent foot and headwork, dribbling, imposing pass,...

Mahfuz R. Chowdhury :(From previous issue)The Chinese authorities, however, appear to have a much better grip over their system, and are using their economic command...

Mohd Siddiqur Rahman :We are deeply shocked to have noticed the news of deadly scuffle and killing one another that continued to capture the headlines...

Sergio Carrera and Karel Lannoo :The tragedy of asylum-seekers across the EU is the subject of widespread discussions of an unprecedented scale. The events have...

THE crane fall incident at Masjid-ul-Haram in Mecca killing over 107 pilgrims came as a big shock to the Muslim world just weeks before the...