Editorial

URBAN life in the capital Dhaka and the port city Chittagong has come to a halt due to water logging following the seasonal rains for...

WITH the alarming increase of social crimes like rape, molestation, sexual assault, and adultery, Bangladesh has also become a haven for documenting child pornography. The...

Martial art in cinema There are massive demands for martial art based movies all over the world. That is why the film producers of the...

Tal Abbady :Shortly after Israel invaded the Gaza Strip in 2009, a close Muslim friend I’d known since elementary school suddenly disappeared from my Facebook...

Jonathan Power :Finally, the over-long, seven-year trial of the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge leadership of Cambodia, is over. The two defendants, Nuon Chea...

Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain :In the whole world the longevity of people are increasing rapidly due to developed medical technology, urbanization, nourished foodstuff, modern lifestyle, new...

IT appears that discovering a decomposed body in an MP Hostel back in 2012 was not enough of a ‘wake up’ call for Parliamentarians and...

BYPASSING Bangladesh Bank directives, many scheduled banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) disbursed a major portion of the loan amounts designated for Small and Medium...

Partisan referees spoil game The referees and the assistant referees have disallowed many legitimate goals on ground of offside in the 20th World Cup Football...

Eugene Bird :Almost 60 years ago, I was a young Foreign Service officer, standing on the Gaza border with my contact from the Israeli Foreign...

Dana Milbank :It has been slipping for some time, really, but a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this month put an exclamation point on Americans’...

Michael James Barton :Yet again, some obstinate U.S. senators have undermined America’s energy renaissance. The Senate just forfeited thousands of new American jobs by denying...