Editorial

FORMER Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam, better known as “People’s president”, from 2002 to 2007 died on Monday at a Shillong hospital after suffering a...

RIDING on expanding high speed internet facility in the country, some mountebank people have made the e-commerce platforms a safe place for their cheating business....

Flying Bangladesh One of my friends asked me, “Can other do what Mustafiz did?” I replied, I do not know, but I know that none...

Gordon Brown :Nearly one hundred years ago, Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of Save the Children, said that the only international language the world understands is...

Karl Aiginger and Kurt Bayer :Six months of talks, seventeen hours of summit negotiations, numerous meetings of Eurogroup finance ministers, heads of state, and the...

Lauren Carasik :In April members of impoverished fishing and farming communities near the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in Gujarat, India, filed a lawsuit in...

MEDIA reports said a young housewife was allegedly stripped naked in a local arbitration at Shapmari village in Sadar upazila of Sherpur district on Friday....

THE Finance Minister last year promised to implement the Pay Commission’s recommendations from January 1 this year but the government allocated an additional Tk 25,553...

NEWS reports on Saturday said transport workers barricaded the movement of buses and other passenger vehicles through the 1st Buriganga Bridge from the morning for...

RECENT news reports show how city hospitals have started reporting arrival of dengue fever patients as the mosquito menace increased with the rains. There must...

Slum people suffer utmost Many people from the rural Bangladesh are being forced to move to the cities, especially to the capital city Dhaka to...

Howarth Bouis :When I started my career as an economist 30 years ago, I had no idea that I would eventually work with a global...