Editorial

N.S.M Muzzammel Huq :During the recent past, Bangladesh has made commendable success in social development sectors. This success speaks of Bangladesh’s sincere commitments of fulfilling...

THE parliamentary standing committee on Road Transports And Bridges Ministry has expressed its concern over the delay of upgrading Dhaka-Chittagong highway into four lanes. The...

THE name ‘Pakistan’ has become synonymous with volatile politics, military influence, unstable democracy, fundamentalism and a historically anti-democratic stance. Lacs of people made supreme sacrifices...

Charles Lane :The story is told of three professors – a chemist, a physicist and an economist – who find themselves shipwrecked with a large...

PROFITEERING and the taking of undue privileges over the Liberation War are currently taking place by some bureaucrats even after 44 years of Independence. Five...

BANGLADESH seems nonchalant about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus and the fact that cases have already started being reported in the United States...

Fattening cattle with harmful hormones It was around noon. Only a day remained before Eid-ul-Adha. People all around were busy bringing sacrificial animals from the...

Alyssa Rosenberg :During the years that feminist video gaming critic Anita Sarkeesian has been subject to a torrent of violent harassment, one frequent response I...

Kathleen Parker :Now, now, let’s not panic.Yes, we have a second health-care worker infected with Ebola after treating the Liberian man who apparently concealed his...

THE World Bank and the International Monetary Fund under their separate lending programmes to boost the country’s economic growth asked the government to improve labour...

ACCORDING to recent statistics, at least 37 percent of children under five in Bangladesh are stunted due to malnutrition and a local English daily reported...

Honouring the dead one It has been a tradition in our society to criticize a man/woman after death in a very ugly manner. This is...