Editorial

TRADING at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) was suspended for almost four hours on Sunday and put on halt for two hours more on Monday because...

Shannon Alexander :Bumping down a dusty road in remote Ethiopia a year ago, I asked my Nepalese colleague why he had traveled so far to...

BANGLADESH has become a country in which it is dangerous to be a female. Just a day ago, newspapers all over the country reported on...

A NATIONAL daily reported that seven hospitals have laundered major part of over Tk 400 crore during 2013-14 using the cover of fictitious procurement tender...

We remember Nazrul Kazi Nazrul Islam was a poet, writer, musician, soldier, revolutionary. Popularly known as Nazrul, his poetry and music espoused Indo-Islamic renaissance and...

Emanuele Schibotto :Asia’s development has been so successful that it has been labelled a “miracle.” However, if this is true for economic growth, the picture...

Arvind Subramanian :How should India approach the forthcoming, and highly anticipated, climate change negotiations planned for December in Paris (COP-21, as it is called)? The...

Will Rohingya get back state? State is the first condition of civilisation. Aristotle has rightly said that the state came into being for the sake...

Olivia Enos :The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons will release its annual Trafficking in Person (TIP) report in June. Ahead...

Jimmy Carter, Gro Harlem Brundtland :Eight months after a devastating war, Israel’s continued and deliberate policy of besieging Gaza and enforcing its separation from the...

IT is a welcome news that Japan government through JICA has signed deal to finance a project for solid waste management of Dhaka city. Current...

Latest news reports show how education in government primary schools has an acute shortage of teaching staff as 50,000 posts of teachers have remained vacant...