Editorial

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...

We need a library in the college hostel A library is a store house of knowledge. It contributes to the making of good citizens of...

Valentina Ieri :It’s called the urban survival gap – fuelled by the growing inequality between rich and poor in both developing and developed countries –...

ADB Blog Team :Islamic finance has enormous potential for delivering much-needed financial services to Muslims who wish to exclude themselves from the formal financial system...

Nicholas Rutherford :The scale of devastation caused by the earthquake in Nepal has once again raised the question of how prepared vulnerable regions are to...

AS REPORTED in the New Nation, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday observed that around 25,000 job-seekers, mostly Rohingyas and Bangladeshis,...

BANGLADESH will take up the opportunity of low fuel oil prices in international markets to adjust prices at home, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith without...

The political future of the United Kingdom is becoming clearer as the results of the general election emerge around the country.David Cameron says he hopes...

Syed Munir Khasru :As governors of the 67-member Asian Development Bank gather at Baku, Azerbaijan, for the bank’s 48th annual meeting, Asia braces itself for...

The passing of the Indira-Mujib boundary agreement of 1974 that proposed an exchange of enclaves in the both Houses of the Indian Parliament testifies that...

NEWS report in The New Nation on Thursday said a vessel carrying around 500 tons of chemical fertilizer has sunken in the Mor Bhola River...

DAVID CAMERON has returned to Downing Street with the Tories having defied polls and won the general election. The Conservatives made gains in England and...