Editorial

Fredrik Logevall and Gordon M. Goldstein :FIFTY years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized a strategic bombing campaign against targets in North Vietnam, an escalation...

Ibne Siraj :A new opinion polls’ report published in the Washington Post shows that most Americans don’t think the United States has an obligation to...

Dr. Atiur Rahman :Governor, Bangladesh BankGrowth path and economic transformation mattering most for labor income (job creation) and higher labor productivity for bottom 40 percent...

Central bank statistics have clarified that State-owned Commercial Banks (SCBs) have been suffering the brunt of irresponsible loan defaulters as a total of 200 companies...

The two incidents of ‘gunfight’ with the police that killed 13 people happened at Paikgachha and Koyra in Khulna last week. Police said the thirteen...

Asha Iyer Kumar :I am writing this piece nestled in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in North East India. I have always been wary of...

All in the name of rights! According to the BBC World News, the US government has rebuffed the gay marriage opponents. Perhaps, the government of...

Paul Krugman :Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, gaining control of both houses of Congress, they won’t gain much in conventional terms: They’re...

Bhasha Sainik Abdul Matin was Marxist and never deviated from his belief despite collapse in the international communist movement. Unlike many Marxists, he did not...

Mahir Ali :IN the run-up to last month’s referendum on Scottish independence, Singapore was occasionally mentioned, however inappropriately, as a possible model.Intriguingly, the city-state has...

Paul Craig Roberts :The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev.Reagan...

QUOTING the Finance Minister AMA Muhith, the media reported that the World Bank (WB) is now rethinking on financing Padma Bridge project. It will indeed...