Editorial

NEWS reports disclosed that the planned Free Trade Agreement (FTA) deal between Bangladesh and Malaysia may face tougher deadlock with both the countries still remaining...

Ideological opposition  We understand the reason of hate-campaign against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (SM) in some parts of the world. The reason is nothing...

Tim Strawson :Ask a development expert: What should international aid be used for?Then prepare yourself to be bombarded by a list of priorities, trade-offs and...

Michael Sweikar :While in the past, federal agencies supplied the majority of funding going toward developing countries, that percentage has continued to decrease over time...

Takehiko Nakao :Asia is making remarkable progress in development and poverty reduction. But, why have some countries developed more rapidly than others? It’s a question...

ABDULLAH bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was the King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from 2005 to 2015. He ascended to...

A NATIONAL daily reported that the Land Ministry has decided to allow the investors including developers to build commercial establishments on the state-owned non-agricultural land...

Give food to the hungry ones Some of our friends call us to work for a non-communal Bangladesh, without explaining what do they mean by...

Thomas Carothers :(From previous issue)Democracy-aid providers need to invest much more energy and resources in finding ways to adapt and respond. With regard to the...

Arancha González :After decades of growing twice as fast as the global economy, world trade has barely kept up with output since 2012. IMF and...

Reuters : The death on Friday of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah means Salman bin Abdulaziz has become the country’s new ruler and the last to...

The innocent victims :Innocent people are being killed, injured, crippled and deformed in the underway blockade (and hartal) programme, which cannot be patronized and overlooked...