Editorial

INTERNATIONAL gold smugglers have been using Bangladesh as a safe haven to smuggle gold into India taking the advantage of illicit nexus with the state-run...

THE rundown railway stations in Dhaka city are gradually becoming unusable with the authorities taking no steps to make the stations attractive for wider sections...

REPORTS show that amongst many other steps, the Pay and Service Commission has suggested imposition of toll at all entry points of the capital to...

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced yesterday that the party’s prescheduled rally in Gazipur would be held tomorrow at any cost while...

Jesse Worker :The past few decades have seen a remarkable expansion of environmental democracy, commonly understood as the public’s rights to information, participation in decision-making...

William G Moseley :If you’re receiving year-end fundraising appeals from international charities or universities, chances are that social entrepreneurship is featured among these. This model...

Football returns :I congratulate Bangladesh Football Federation President Kazi Salahuddin and Indian Football Development Committee Chairman Nita Ambani for their successes in bringing football back...

IN latest news covered by a leading English daily, it has been unearthed that around 2,096 bighas of farmland and water bodies were lost to...

IT is nothing but just an effort of the government to give an artificial push to the economy by borrowing from the external private sector...

A changed feeling The difference between the mental state of the people what was in January 1972 and now when waiting for ushering of January...

Roberto Savio :It is now official: the current inter-governmental system is not able to act in the interest of humankind.The U.N. Climate Change Conference in...

Neena Bhandari :As a child growing up in Far North Queensland, William Clark Enoch would know the crabs were on the bite when certain trees...