Editorial

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...

Tom Plate :Like each of his seven predecessors, the current occupant of the Office of Secretary General of the United Nations gets to pick his...

AN article in a local daily reported that the WHO said the failure of antibiotics to work effectively was a crisis bigger and more urgent...

A NATIONAL English daily reported on Tuesday that some 200 Bangladeshis are facing torture in Thai detention camps for several months. It is an appalling...

Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :MSMEs have been globally considered as an engine of economic growth and as key instruments for promoting equitable development. The...

Dr. Muhammad Omar Foysal :The development, goodwill and uniqueness of an organization depend on the proper empowerment of human resources. The major responsibility of a...

Glenn Harlan Yeynolds :There was a time when science fiction was a place to explore new ideas, free of the conventional wisdom of staid, “mundane”...

At Roopganj in Narayanganj district, a 22-year old woman was brutally tortured a few days ago for her refusal to pay dowry. Her husband, husband’s...

Erick Vasconcelos :People who did not turn up for the “biometric relisting,” which ocurred in several Brazilian cities, summoning about 14 million voters, will lose...

Atiq Rahman and Manjushree Maharjan :Sound is the foundation of the life because life starts with the first crying sound of a baby when the...

Maxim Trudolyubov :The annexation of Crimea, the media offensive against Kiev and the threat of military force against Ukraine are President Vladimir V. Putin’s ultimate...

AS elsewhere in the world, Bangladesh is also observing the historic May Day in memory of those workers who gave their lives 125 years ago...