Editorial

A REPORT carried by a vernacular daily said that the office of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) has been virtually occupied by ruling party men and...

Save our heritage The photo on the front page of an English daily of June 26, 2015 showing a portion of the boundary wall of...

Duncan Green :A miasma of existential doubt seems to hang over large chunks of the aid industry, even here in the UK, where I’ve argued...

Erik Solheim :Extreme poverty has been halved in a few decades and most people have never been richer, healthier and better educated. But average global...

Ban Ki-moon :Long before I beca-me Secretary-General, the United Nations occupied a special place in my life. I was six years old when the Korean...

THREE premier public universities remained closed now to abate tension in the campuses showing a highly deteriorating academic environment. BUET is closed. Shahjalal University of...

NEWS reports said 11 children were reported dead between May 30 and June 20 at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital from diseases that were triggered by...

Infringing religious rights China, Myanmar and Central African Republic (CAR) have declared war on Islam. The governments of these three countries have banned Ramazan fasting,...

Lorraine R. Inouye :On the Island of Hawai’i, where I live, I have witnessed the best of what renewable energy has to offer – geothermal,...

Thomas Maier :It is said that often, statistics are used less for illumination than for support of one’s own position, but in the case of...

THREE French banks have reportedly turned down request to invest in Bangladesh’s Rampal power plant. Six months earlier, two Norwegian pension funds pulled out their...

THERE is a common scene in city streets when powerful persons drive their cars in the wrong side of the streets to avoid traffic gridlock...