Editorial

The politics of election January 5, 2014 and April 28, 2015, two different elections, one was general election and the other city corporation election. The...

Dowry related violence Violence against women is on increase due to victims’ helplessness and their inability to pay dowry, and offenders’ ignorance about the consequence...

Sushmita Bose :In school, one of our lessons at moral science class was ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’. That, I felt, was a tall order:...

Mahir Ali :ON a lazy afternoon a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity, after several decades, to reacquaint myself with University Challenge, a longstanding...

Bernd Debusmann Jr :AMONG THE many questions prompted by Hillary Clinton’s long-expected announcement that she will run for president is this: where does she stand...

NEWS report in a national daily on Wednesday said quoting Finance Minister AMA Muhith that a record level $24 billion foreign aid is spilling up...

CONSTITUTIONAL amendments to trim the government’s executive powers were passed in Sri Lanka’s parliament Tuesday after a flurry of deal-making. The changes, which will limit...

WHILE the government is repeatedly claiming its success in poverty reduction in the area of socio-economic development, the number of slums, a symbol of poverty...

Local English dailies reported on an observation of our Finance Minister Tuesday who wondered how Bangladesh would be able to attract medical tourists unless our...

Limits of rights The governments of the some western countries, and the ex-Marxists of our country often clamour that human rights are violated in Bangladesh....

N. Janardhan :Oil markets fluctuated about five per cent during late March and early April following three significant events – the Saudi-led coalition air strikes...

Jessica Mendoza :Nepal’s long history of seismic events is related to the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Himalayan mountain range – “one of the...