Editorial

Live telecast of Asia Cup Football We demand live telecast of the 17th Asia Cup Football Championship underway in Australia in the interest of millions...

Farid Hasan Ahmed :A cold wave is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. It is a rapid fall in...

Thomas Carothers :With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall so recently upon us, efforts to take stock of the global state...

THE definition of ‘Human Rights’ has almost been redefined to include authorizing shooting, killing or hurting the political opponents by the Chairman of the Bangladesh...

MOST newspapers reported, quoting Bangladesh Bank data that the scheduled banks in November 2014 cut rates of interest on their deposit products due to rising...

Syed Emran Hossain :The whole world once again got shaken with the recent massacre that took place on 7 January 2015 when two masked gunmen...

REPORTS show that corruption and irregularity rule the country’s drug administration, where money can buy licences and registrations for low-quality, counterfeit medicines. A Transparency International...

SALINITY is silently creeping into the vast areas of the country’s Southwest region over the years. The green croplands have turned into a gray and...

Punish them We demand severe punishment to those who devised and executed arson attack on a passenger bus at Mithapukur in Rangpur district on Tuesday,...

Jeff Tyson :In an internal email to staff distributed Tuesday, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim set an end date for his reform agenda and...

Jonathan Power :We have much to be glum about at the onset of 2015 – the latest is the killings in Paris. But we are...

CHIEF of Border Guard Bangladesh Maj Gen Abdul Aziz yesterday said the paramilitary force deployed to maintain law and order would use “lethal weapons” if...