We can’t abandon our migrants, get actively engaged to their rescue
As the poor Bangladeshi boat people are drifting in the South Asian sea and screaming for rescue, the Bangladesh government appears to be still not...
Editorial
Bourse needs vigilance to sustain bullish trading
STOCKS extended their winning streak for the third session in a row Tuesday, with turnover crossing Tk 8 billion-mark again, as investors continued to inject...
Readers’ Forum
Lessons for athletes Undaunted by five defeats in a row, Mumbai Indians (MI) continued their battle in the IPL 2015 to cruise into the final...
Drive with each other, not against the other
Thomas Edelmann :We experience reckless driving on our roads pretty much on a daily basis. While high-profile cases such as stunt driving represent the tip...
Israel must seize this opportunity for peace
Fareed Zakaria :Israel’s new coalition government, formed with the slimmest possible majority in its parliament, likely means that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will act even...
Putin gets a snub from West
Mahir Ali :Saturday’s parade in Moscow, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi war machine in Europe, also served as a reminder...
Newspapers read better on Facebook
Cristina Maza :Facebook came one step closer on Wednesday to changing the way we read the news.After months of closed-door negotiations between the Internet giant...
Migrant crisis highlights toothless nature of ASEAN
The Southeast Asian grouping known as ASEAN has made a point of not pressuring member nations over internal issues such as rights abuses, and in...
BTCL must be held accountable for losing JICA fund
JAPAN International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has withdrawn from financing an optical fibre transmission network for Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) citing corruption at high official...
Death sentence on Morsi is political killing and must be abhorred
AN Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced the country’s first ever freely elected president and Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi to death for alleged prison break during...
Readers’ Forum
Knowledge power No nation can progress socio-economically without proper education. Superstition, ignorance, bigotry, blind allegiance to leadership and jealousy are stumbling block to successes. That...
Parents can become our best friends
Asha Iyer Kumar :Thus, another ‘set away’ day passed with all the pomp an unfettered social media could provide, with no maternal emotion left untapped...