Editorial

THE fellow students mourn. Not the fellows only, but almost the whole nation was gripped in shock over the loss of three meritorious students of...

EVEN after authorities have put up signs and created beggar-free zones, begging is still rampant in different city areas. This newspaper ran a report on...

TAKING advantage of topographical location Bhutan has taken the project of constructing the world’s largest hydropower station. Hopefully this will benefit the energy thrust of...

THEY suffer a lot due to low prices of their harvests, though they provide foodstuffs for the rest. We often forget we live on what...

Farmers need protection The country grew 90 lakh metric tonnes of rice in 1972-73 for its 7.50 crore population. Now the production is 3.50 crore...

Dr. N. Janardhan :Those who believed that a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers was possible by November 24 were too optimistic; those...

Claire Luke and Mythili Sampathkumar :On Monday, the first day of the 20th U.N. Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, the atmosphere was hopeful but...

PROTESTS have been held for a second night over the death of a black man held in an apparent chokehold by a white New York...

THE much-hyped goal for cent percent adult literacy by 2015 has been found wanting while the literacy rate was estimated at the end of 2014...

No clear favourites in World Cup Cricket 2015 The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the 11th ICC Cricket World Cup scheduled to be...

Muhammad Quamrul Islam :It gave us immense pleasure to read point- blank remarks of teacher economist Nurul Islam on the current state of affairs in...

Dr. Atiur Rahman Governor, Bangladesh Bank :In the last few years, Bangladesh Bank has recalibrated its focus from traditional central banking to a comprehensive, all-encompassing...