Editorial

Jenny Lei Ravelo :The number of displaced persons has been increasing every year since 2011, reaching a staggering 59.5 million end of 2014.This number sets...

BANGLADESHI nationals’ deposits with various Swiss banks rose by 36.02 percent in 2014 compared with the previous year’s figure showing the fact that capital flight...

ACCORDING to latest news reports, a 26-year old resident living around Tejgaon Rly Station slum stabbed his pregnant wife with scissors and killed their unborn...

Katherine Purvis :The CHS Alliance, a new over-arching body for humanitarian standards launched this week, aiming to bring about more accountability for NGOs, and harmonising...

Jm Yong Kim :Over the past 25 years, with almost no notice or acclaim, more than 1 billion people lifted themselves out of extreme poverty,...

Lucy Cadena :One of the promises made by the leaders of the world’s seven richest nations when they met at Schloss Elmau in Germany last...

EXPERTS at a seminar on ‘finding strategies to save the rivers around the capital and the immediate steps’ that need to be taken have called...

A NATIONAL daily on Thursday reported that Jiban Bima Corporation has dismissed 28 officials and employees from its Sylhet regional office on charge of misappropriation...

Amazing victory :Bangladesh took the revenge of their controversial Melbourne defeat by way of registering an amazing 79 runs undisputed victory over India on Thursday...

Anne Brasseur :Like so many others, I am pleased that FIFA’s controversial president – finally – has stood down. Whatever his past failings, in his...

K.M. Zubair :The holy month of Ramazan is here. Muslims should receive the blessed month with repentance, sincerity, resoluteness and earnestness. He/she should make the...

Rachel Kyte :Last weekend, the leaders of the G7 committed to a series of actions that mark their first serious recognition of the economic transformation...