Editorial

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...

A humble prayer When I look around, I see people of all ages, from toddlers to aged one, all of them occupied with their respective...

PUBLIC university teachers have called for one day strike on Tuesday demanding separate pay scale and their proper status which they said have been downgraded...

THE city dwellers will have to face a severe water and drainage crisis in near future unless the wholesale destruction of floodplains and wetlands ceases...

Tidhar Wald and Karen Miller :On August 26, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion of the findings of the 2015 Financial and Digital Inclusion...

Jeffrey E. Garten :(From previous issue)I saw this firsthand when I was in the Clinton administration. My colleagues and I preached to emerging-market governments and...

Rising acts of crimesIt seems that the country has become a haven for criminals. They are cowards and at the same time cruel. That is...

Jeffrey E. Garten :Long before the current market debacle, I was confronted with a fundamental question about emerging markets. As I was finishing off my...

Ian Anderson :World population reached 7.3 billion in July 2015, 2 billion more than 1990, the baseline year for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A...

WHILE the Bangladesh capital Dhaka was adjudged the second least liveable city in the world for the third consecutive year, according to the Economist Intelligence...