Editorial

ACCORDING to news reports, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has made the disclosure that food-borne diseases kill an estimated two million people annually, including children...

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...

Stop bloodshed in Yemen The area of Yemen, an Arab country, is 2,03,796 square miles and its population is 2,38,33,000 approximately. The country is bounded...

Rebecca Liao :Longtime American Group of 20 allies and fellow Western industrialized nations did not join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank simply because of the...

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....

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...

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...