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Editorial

Environmental interface of poverty

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :Poverty in Bangladesh is primarily a ‘rural phenomenon’ with “53 percent of its rural population classified as poor, comprising about 85...

Readers’ Forum

Penalise the child-killers Reading The Daily Star’s headline on July 23 (Justice Delayed, not Denied), it struck me that this is not a time of...

Readers’ Forum

Elementary religious teaching We are Muslims and want to die as Muslims. Allah says in Verse 102, Surah Al Imran, “O you who believe! Fear...

Russia’s blow to globalization

Anne Applebaum :While it lasted, globalization was a beguiling tale we told ourselves about the future. The world is interconnected and therefore getting not just...

The Ukraine quagmire

Eric S. Margolis :Russia and the West are at war – over fruits, veggies and bank loans. The cause is Ukraine, a vast emptiness formerly...