Editorial

HOW many more banks does the government plans to set up in the public sector and what are the real justifications behind them? The question...

UNDOUBTEDLY it is a dream of all the city dwellers to own a home. It is not time that one can buy a plot of...

Congratulation Sri Lanka I congratulate Sri Lanka for winning the both Asian Cup Cricket and the ICC T20 World Cup back to back concluded in...

Odd Arne Westad :For a long time China has prided itself on the gradual improvement and solidification of its relations with the countries of the...

Cesar Chelala :Now, and from the most unexpected source, we have information on the futility of torture. According to information released to the press, the...

Jeff Kingston :Kyle Cleveland, my colleague at Temple University Japan, recently published a report in the online Asia-Pacific Journal, “Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear...

BANGLADESH performed very poorly in the recently concluded Asia Cup and the ICC World Twenty20 Cricket. They lost in all the four matches in the...

A NEWS report in a national daily on Thursday said four people were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident on the busy...

How is it possible? Often we hear calls of separating religion from politics in order to build a commune free Bangladesh, which, to me, seems...

Asha Iyer Kumar :I have been a creative writing tutor for more than 12 years, and I have lost count of the number of times...

P.G. Bhaskar :I suppose it had to come: The corporatisation of medicine. One by one, the business world seeks new areas to target, devour and...

Yasmin Reema :Once polite and free-spirited, Rahela is now a changed person. She is prickly and withdrawn. She is irritable most of the time even...