Editorial

TAP water in metropolis Dhaka supplied by WASA is not directly drinkable and the city’s residents have no choice but to boil and filter the...

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...

WC U-20 ignored in Bangladesh The 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup is the twentieth edition of the U-20 World Cup since its inception in 1977...

Sandy Dechert :Although negotiations on a draft text for December’s Paris climate talks have stalled, with very little of the 89-page document having been pared,...

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...