Editorial

Syed Nazakat :He’s known as India’s corruption buster. And now Arvind Kejriwal, a youthful-looking former tax inspector and winner of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel...

Dr N. Janardhan :Oil prices have crashed from over $100 to sub-$60 a barrel in just five months. While this is good news for consumer...

Lean Alfred Santos :The Asian Development Bank launched Open Access Repository, a website that presently holds about 2,100 publications for anyone to access.The Asian Development...

Macharia Kamau :Once again, 2014 demonstrated the fact that underdevelopment and poverty in large swathes of the world produce a range of intensifying crises that...

NEWS report in an English daily on Thursday said over 6,000 cars are remaining stranded at Mongla and Chittagong ports as the blockade and frequent...

INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi said every individual in his country has the “undeniable right to retain or adopt” any faith. Modi who was accused...

A REPORT in an English daily said bacterial contamination is found in almost 40 percent of tube-wells in a survey unveiled great risk of spreading...

A good start indeedWe congratulate the Bangladesh cricket team for securing two valuable points from Wednesday’s win against the war torn Afghanistan in a Group...

Jim Jarvie, Anna Brown :Asia is experiencing unprecedented urbanization – more than 750 million people live in urban areas, exceeding the combined population of the...

James Ayre :Is the healthcare industry morally obligated to divest from fossil fuels? Does an industry that purports to aim to do away with or...

Curt Carnemark :Climate change hits the poorest people the hardest, those living in vulnerable areas with the fewest resources to help them adapt or recover...

NEWS report in a national daily on Tuesday said four major gas distribution companies have dodged tax payment of Tk 13,277 crore to the national...