Editorial

Diana Ohlbaum :It’s not big. It’s not shiny. But there is a promising train of sustainable funding for local priorities, and it has been largely...

Justin Fox :Any aphorism that gets attributed to both Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra (as well as Samuel Goldwyn, Mark Twain and others), has got...

Angel Gurría and Lilianne Ploumen :This week Heads of State and Ministers from over 40 developed and major emerging economies will convene in Paris at...

MAGGI noodles; marketed by Nestle India in Bangladesh as elsewhere in global markets is highly contaminated with MSG (monosodium glutamate) and above the permissible levels...

NEWS reports said a three-star Thai army general Manas Kongpan has been arrested for his alleged involvement in human trafficking of Bangladeshi nationals and Myanmar’s...

A point to ponder Majority populations of Bangladesh unlike the rest of the world observe the 15th Shaban as Shab-e-Barat (Night of Fate) every year....

Ira Belkin and Jerome Cohen :The slogan for the 2008 Beijing Olympics was “Beijing Welcomes You.” Now, seven years later, a draft law targeting foreign...

Lucy Graham and Michael Gibb :We are surrounded by some of the most prized resources on the planet. We may give it little thought, but...

Johannes F. Linn :It certainly seems that way, judging by recent developments. Capital increases for the World Bank, for the Asian Development Bank (AsDB), for...

EIGHT people were burned, two of them badly, in Comilla on Wednesday in a mindless petrol bomb attack on a running bus, reminding the people...

NEWS reports said on Wednesday that Bangladesh Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) has given Life Insurance Company of India (LIC) the letter of consent...

A joke indeed We urge the political big-wigs not to say that the January 5 general election and the recently held mayoral election were free...