Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Nasir Uddin :Planned urbanization with a proper scheme of housing and settlement for the low and medium income groups is...
Kajal Basu :The first thing you notice is that the (long-delayed) BJP manifesto for the 2014 general election is replete with cut-from-the-same-cloth mottos: The manifesto...
Rahul Goswami :Why heritage must not be turned into digital commodities. To what extent can cultural heritage be digitised and commodified? In a clumsy partnership,...
The Bengali calendar year (Bangla Sal) relates to the revenue collection so far its inception is concerned. The credit goes to Mughal Emperor Akber and...
THE nation celebrates the Bengali New Year ‘Pohela Boishakh’ today with bountiful fanfare and socio-cultural festivities in the capital and throughout the country. We will...
AN English daily has reported that some organized groups are swindling huge amounts of money out of the poor promising work in the Padma Bridge...
Dream of a child labour It was midday when I met a ten-year-old boy named Sumon who was breaking bricks as he was sweating extremely...
Jeremy Rifkin :Airbnb is all the talk on Wall Street. Its thirtysomething founders were nearly broke six years ago. Now it seems likely they will...
Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy :China is experiencing a “Deng Xiaoping Moment 2.0.” The new Chinese leadership seems fairly optimistic in its effort to reshape the country’s...
Masum Billah :With a view to returning to strongman leadership for Egypt its army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi resigned from the military. In a televised...
WC Football 2014 The World Cup Football is recognised as the greatest show on earth. Its 20th edition will be held in Brazil’s 12 cities...
Kevin Carson :Back in 2010 Newt Gingrich explained that US president Barack Obama lies “outside our comprehension” unless we use his “Kenyan, anti-colonial” ideological orientation...
