Editorial

Erik Solheim :Extreme poverty has been halved and humans in general have never been richer, healthier or better educated. More than 600 million people have...

Iran heads Asia FIFA ranking Powerhouse Iran with 689 points still head the Asia Zone soccer playing nations in the FIFA ranking according to a...

Heath Cosgrove :A growing body of evidence suggests that secure rights to land and property have a powerful impact on enhancing food security, resilience, women’s...

Raj Kumarraj :Localization has been a major theme in the development community over the past several years. But recently I’ve noticed a change. After moderating...

José Tissier :Launched during the U.N. Climate Summit in September 2014, the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture aims at working toward sustainable and equitable increases...

MOST of the fire extinguishers at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) have been beyond their expiry date for more than a year. Worse still,...

THE country is likely to get a Tk 300,000 crore budget for the fiscal 2015-16, up about 20 percent from the current year, to meet...

Sir Frank Peters :While I do not condole vigilante justice, I must admit to enjoying a modicum of satisfaction recently when I learned a schoolteacher...

Randall Kempner :When the dust settles on the sustainable development goals, and the world knows exactly what targets will determine climate and development policy for...

John McArthur :As the Millennium Development Goals approach their 2015 deadline, debates are in full swing about what might form appropriate targets for Sustainable Development...

Whom to trust :Why should anybody vote for BNP? After all it was BNP-Jamat agitation that left nearly a hundred dead and several hundred injured...

NEWS reports on Tuesday said that Russia has temporarily stopped importing potatoes from Bangladesh expressing concerns related to food safety and disease risks. The ban...