Editorial

Jonathan Power :Rightly the debate over a way to end the Iranian nuclear crisis is now the number one issue in Western foreign policy. Compared...

Dr. Nandasiri Jasentuliyana :When the founding fathers of the United Nations met in San Francisco 70 years ago, an American banker named Beardsley Ruml made...

Tate Williams :A growing mountain of research suggests that climate change is likely to aggravate every problem now confronting humanity: hunger, gender inequality, ethnic conflict,...

ACCORDING to news report the Chief Economist of Bangladesh Bank on Sunday said that the government should give more powers to the central bank in...

POLICE appeared to have released an alleged activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League hours after taking him into custody from Jagannath University on charges of sexually...

Now the Test series The two Test cricket match series between the hosts Bangladesh and the visiting Pakistan begins today in Khulna. Bangladesh Television will...

THE Prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) hits fresh 16 month-low as stocks fell further by the week-end due to investors remaining shaky...

NEWS report said that the Japanese government has taken an initiative to make vulnerable building of the country’s garment factories safe for the RMG workers...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :The pioneers of rural development used to value institution building for mobilizing the benefiaries for whom development was meant. The critics...

Michael Igoe :While the development community rallies around a new post-2015 development agenda – set to launch in September – finance institutions, aid agencies, civil...

Marta Foresti :It could so easily be predicted. With calmer waters and warmer weather, conflict raging in Syria, Yemen and beyond, and a much reduced...

Traffic lawlessness On the Gulshan Avenue approaching the first traffic circle from south, there is a coffee shop, where despite so many places to park,...