Editorial

Depressing events all around Now-a-days I have lost all interest in reading newspapers or watching television knowing that depressing and outrageous news are waiting there....

CUSTODIANS or managers of shrines dotting the cities, towns and rural areas of Bangladesh gobble up the lion’s share of the donations offered by devotees...

DURING the monsoon, plain lands of Bangladesh go under water due to natural rainfall and increased downstream water flow in several trans-boundary rivers from neighbouring...

Golden days of Dhaka Football  Dhaka Wanderers Club (DWC) regained the Dhaka First Division Football League title in 1960, even they lost to 1959 Champions...

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi :With significant gaps between the position of parties still remaining, despite serious marathon negotiations unfortunately a final deal by July 20th has...

Barrister Nazir Ahmed :The Constitution of Bangladesh provides a provision for the establishment of the office of Ombudsman. Article 77 of the Constitution says: “(1)...

THE crisis in Iraq has roots which go far back in history – to colonial times when the French and British divided up the Ottoman...

AMIDST the mounting environmental threats the decision to go for compulsory jute packaging even after four years of forming the law seems realistic. Once paramount,...

English medium schools ignore new law It is heartening to know that the government has realised the need to put the fast-growing English medium school...

Dr Maleeha Lodhi :Delays in the audit of Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election and uncertainty about its outcome have cast a long shadow over the country’s...

Omaira Gil :When you marry someone from a different culture, the hurdles of married life come with an added dimension. It was nice to see...

Mohd Siddiqur Rahman :We have come a long way, Country has progressed a lot, four decades since independence is a witness to it’s multiple developments,...