Editorial

Thalif Deen :As the United Nations continues its negotiations to both define and refine a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before a summit...

Atiur Rahman, PhDGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :For quite some years now, governments and central banks/financial sector authorities in all SAARCFINANCE member countries are employing financial inclusion...

WITH the monsoon here, fear of landslides grip those living in the hill regions, especially on the hillsides. Several thousand people of low-income group live...

NEWSPAPERS all over the country reported on how rain from the past two days has caused havoc on our traffic all over the city and...

Kevin Maney :Our brains suck at data. Even worse, our brains often use random data to deceive us and make us do dumb things. Cognitive...

Nicholas Biswas :Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world where the level of respect and awareness regarding social justice and human rights...

Lucy Kafanov :There were celebrations in the predominantly Kurdish city in the southeast by pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party. The elections on Sunday dealt an unprecedented...

Bangladesh lost to Kyrgyzstan 1-3 at home on Thursday in a World Cup Football (WCF) 2018 and Asia Cup Football (ACF) 2019 qualification match. The...

A national daily on Friday published a lead story captioned ‘Farmers are yet to get reasonable price of paddy’ highlighting the perils of the people...

No university in Bangladesh found a place in a list of top 100 varsities in Asia in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings for...

Copa America rolls on The 2015 Copa América will be the 44th edition of the Copa America, the main international football tournament for national teams...

Helen Epstein :Poor Burundi. Landlocked, tiny, and known mainly for ethnic conflict, it was for years the subject of one of the most intense international...