Editorial

Mykola Riabchuk :In 2010, the Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych scandalised his countrymen by saying – facetiously – that the next time the Donbas region, on...

Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :NRBs have been contributing in many ways to the socioeconomic development of Bangladesh. Their remittances have been contributing towards the...

ELECTION means giving people the freedom of choice to elect their representatives to local bodies and the National Parliament. But if the electioneering process comes...

A DECISION is agitating the environmentalists and agricultural scientists as to whether genetically modified vegetable like potato should be adopted in the country for commercial...

NEWS report in a national English daily on Saturday said instead of hall provosts of the Dhaka University leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the...

PREVALENCE of stunted children is high in low literacy and lower income groups resulting from poor food and malnutrition intake and experts hold the view...

Some hard facts On February 28, 2014 in the annual human rights report of the USA, Secretary of State, John Kerry disclosed the condition of...

Adil Rasheed :It is often claimed that political parties in India never take their election manifestos seriously. Manifestos, it is said, make for dull reading...

Ibne Siraj :All developments taking place in Ukraine since the deployment of military force by Moscow in the Crimean peninsula speak of the fact that...

Jonathan Power :It was the Americans, back in the time of the deposed Shah, who encouraged Iran to develop a nuclear bomb-making capacity. Now it...

A story in a national English daily on Friday told a terrible story about how the Dhaka Central Jail turned into a heaven of drug...

THE number of kidney patients and deaths from the disease is alarmingly high in the country and available treatment facilities is not enough, besides being...