Editorial

Jonathan Power :Is disorder the measure of our times? Can anyone see an end to the upheavals in the Middle East?What could have been done...

Marianela Jarroud :Women’s participation in decision-making is highly beneficial and their role in designing and applying public policies has a positive impact on people’s lives,...

Chris Bucholtz :Tasks crowd our working days. And as the pace of work accelerates, managers’ expectations grow year after year. It’s no wonder that people...

Teixobactin with great hope Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have discovered an unusual method of producing antibiotics from bacteria that live in dirt. According...

Jamie Metzl :Soon after the Islamic State’s brutal murder in January of the Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called...

Fernando Florez :Money is tight for governments around the world and pressure is intense to cut spending. But one area that that has escaped the...

THE International Women’s Day observed in Bangladesh and elsewhere on March 8 reminds us once again the need for bringing socio-economic change to women for...

LOCAL news dailies reported that the government plans to increase its borrowing from banks which is quite unusual because of a mismatch between resource inflow...

The call for independence On the day of the 7th March in 1971, I was at Naogaon. My father was a government officer there. The...

Sushmita Bose :I find it annoying that Whatsapp allows anyone – absolutely anyone in the world who has your phone number (incidentally, mine is part...

Muhammad Mustafa :The single-most alarming social problem in Bangladesh which affects the life of each and every people irrespective of gender, age or economic status...

John Kerry Secretary of State of the United States :Every day, we read about women and girls around the world who are victims of heinous...