Editorial

LOCAL and international news reports say that Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in as Sri Lankan president after a victory over veteran strongman Mahinda Rajapakse in...

Practice of overcharging the customers has become a regular phenomenon in the private scheduled banks of the country. In a belated move, Bangladesh Bank (BB)...

Asian Cup 2015 The 17th edition of the Asia Cup Football Tournament started on Friday with the match between hosts Australia and Kuwait in Melbourne....

Till Bruckner :(From previous issue)And the government is happy too. Why? Because as long as those pesky Western-educated fifth columnists do not listen to ordinary...

ZahurulAlam :Disagreements are natural phenomena of human society. Existence of different interest groups in the society causes differences of opinion, approach, behavior and functioning of...

Halima Akhtar :The poet Alfred Tennyson composed his famous “In Memoriam” after the demise of his intimate friend Arthur Hallam. Syed Mahbub Murshed’s achievements warrant...

Till Bruckner :A man waves a white flag with the word, “peace” written in Arabic and English during the Bahraini revolution in 2011. There are...

No Bangladeshi movies on TV :It is a pity that the our television channels are shy to screen Bangladeshi movies, while the cable operators have,...

THE THREE-DAY Bishwa Ijtema began at Tongi yesterday with the participation of hundreds of thousands of devotees from home and abroad amid a disturbing political...

THE NEW NATION on Friday reported that Petrobangla is going to carrying out a feasibility study on “Open pit mining” for coal extraction at Barapukuria....

Amid talk of the “Asian century,” one of the most important questions is how best to finance the continent’s tremendous infrastructure needs. Whether crumbling roads...

DEFYING the repeated pleas of environmentalists, the government reopened the Shela river route after 26 days of the oil spill of 3.58 lakh litres furnace...