Editorial

THE World Press Freedom Day, established by the UN was observed in Bangladesh on May 03 (Saturday). It reminds the global community that freedom of...

AMID the government’s plan to lower corporate tax to boost private investment the Centre for Policy Dialogue – an economic research think-tank – has opined...

NATIONAL dailies have reported that a reception to the State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock was accorded by keeping 209 schools of an upazila closed....

THE National Board of Revenue (NBR) is mulling the imposition of a tax at double the rate on the new industries to be established in...

The fear psyche I do not know how to express the grief, despair, fear and all sorts of negative emotions, which have got hold of...

Pallava Bagla :Science and Technology may not form part of the daily vitriol that is spewed in election speeches, but scientists need not despair. In...

Jonathan Power :When it comes to Ukraine the United States and the European Union are adopting a holier than thou attitude which, unfortunately, leads them...

Francesca Dominici, Michael Greenstone and Cass R. Sunstein :Last week, a divided court of appeals upheld what may well be the most important environmental rule...

NEWS reports revealed that foreign aid to Bangladesh in terms of loan and grants faced a fatal blow after the controversial unilateral election of 5th...

A REPORT in a local daily mentioned that the United States has renewed calls for Bangladesh’s leaders to work through their bitter divisions, warning that...

Struggle for survival In the evening, just a few days back, a nine-year-old girl Sompa Rani Das was trying to collect water in her vessels...

Bruce Ackerman :The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. assured his followers. But...