Editorial

Paul Krugman :Britain’s economic performance since the financial crisis struck has been startlingly bad. A tentative recovery began in 2009, but it stalled in 2010....

Emre Turkut :On 25 March 2015, the international community witnessed another massive campaign of destruction in the form of a military intervention against the Houthis...

THE New Nation has run a story on Tuesday captioned ‘promotion en masse’ under which the government has promoted 873 bureaucrats to their higher posts...

NEWS report said Bangladesh Biman’s Dhaka-Syedpur flight was cancelled on Monday due to non-availability of operational aircraft while the inaugural flights of Dhaka-Chittagong flights along...

M.A. Jabbar :World Health Day again reminds us that adulteration or contamination of food not only affects the life of each people irrespective of gender,...

Robert Fisk :Iran was reborn as a major Middle East nation when it agreed to limit its nuclear ambitions. Despite the “ifs” (if Iran complies...

NEWS reports over power outage on last Friday night that left vast areas of central part of Bangladesh without electricity for several hours had in...

THE government is set to launch a new social safetynet scheme to bring 3.57 crore poorest and most vulnerable people under state support to effectively...

Promoting discipline in society The most spoken word in the country’s present politics is communalism. The Students’ Favourites Dictionary defines communalism as adherence and partiality...

Melinda Gates :My husband Bill and I call ourselves impatient optimists. We started our foundation because we believe that when it comes to improving the...

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....

David E. Sanger and Michael R. Gordon :It was just one of hundreds of arguments between American and Iranian officials as they tried to hash...