Editorial

Allan Jacob :STARTING SMALL and creating big on a midget budget is now the stuff of reality. Dreams of sighting extraterrestrials, of humans lapping up...

WITH massive urbanization and industrialization being part of modern society since the the Industrial Revolution in England, the primitive agro-based society of the past slowly...

CORPORATE Social Responsibility (CSR) activities carried by the businesses are meant for the benefits of the society. But the CSR expenditure of the state-owned banks...

A forgotten legend singer Folk-song legend Abbas Uddin Ahmad was born on October 27, 1901 in Tufanganj Sub-division of Cooch Bihar district (now in India)....

Thomas L. Knapp :I came late to the news of Twitpic’s impending (and thankfully partial) closure and even later to an explanation for it. My...

President Dilma made it for second time The people of Brazil gave priority to the country’s economic development, and not soccer, in the presidential election...

John Coleman :THE debate about climate change is finished – because it has been categorically proved not to exist, one of the world’s leading meteorologists...

Medea Benjamin :President Barack Obama proudly signed the law that repealed the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, freeing lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans (although...

Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain :The Functions of Human Resource Management in various organizations are different based on the mission and vision. It is very complex to...

THE government is going to empower ministers with the authority of approving investment projects costing up to Tk 25 crore under the annual development programme...

HOW an administrative inefficiency can turn a reputed hospital into a wasteland could be exemplified by the Holy Family Hospital. Despite having all facilities and...

BANGLADESH is paying the cost of inefficiency of two foreign oil companies in conducting offshore oil and gas exploration. Two consecutive press reports detailed out...