Editorial

THE country’s trade deficit hits $7.14 billion in the first nine months of the current financial 2014-15 compared with $4.55 billion during the same period...

Kristy Siegfried :Those trying to escape conflict and violence often only make headlines when they cross an international border and become refugees, but the majority...

Susie Wheeldon :Last week the charity SolarAid announced that it had hit a milestone ensuring that 10 million people have access to clean, safe light....

NEWS reports on Monday said that the government is planning to hand over the power to recruit and hire new employees of state owned commercial...

THE New Nation recently reported that about 47 percent graduates of the country are unemployed and the number is increasing day by day as the...

Test cricket getting its pride back Pakistan finally won the longer version of cricket, as they outclassed hosts Bangladesh by 328 runs in the second...

Mariko Hall :Collaboration between humanitarians, service providers and government authorities in Nepal is enabling life-saving connectivity.Following the 7.9 magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal, the response...

Know the history The Bengal Muslim League leader H.S. Suhrawardy in 1947 on April 27 proposed that Bengal should be an independent and sovereign State....

Several events have coincided to demonstrate the dynamic, if not guarded, relationship between Russia and the Nordic and Baltic states. Ten NATO countries and Sweden...

Jeffrey D. Sachs :The data revolution is rapidly transforming every part of society. Elections are managed with biometrics, forests are monitored by satellite imagery, banking...

Leora Klapper, Karina Broens Nielsen :How many adults in the world have a bank account? How do people save, borrow, and manage financial risk? How...

BANGLADESH Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has expressed its inability to pay over Tk 600 crore tax and VAT to the National Board of Revenue (NBR) which...