Editorial

Robert A. Manning :It is fashionable these days to compare current tensions in East Asia to Europe on the eve of WWI in 1914. Then,...

AMOR Ekushey is being observed today in due solemnity to remember the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement and with elaborate socio-cultural festivities in the...

THE number of premature death of expatriate workers in their host countries has shot up as per news reports published on Thursday in a national...

Carrie Sheffield :An interesting trending online compares the economies of American states with global economies. There isn’t uniform thinking about this, with various maps highlighted...

Lawrence Summers :INEQUALITY has emerged as a major economic issue in the United States and beyond. Sharp increases in the share of income going to...

Fahmida Hashem :1000 days- number of the days to save the child’s future & too rich the deadline in MDG’s. In the first 1ooo day’s...

A NEWS report in a national daily on Wednesday said that the government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Qatar...

SURPLUS potato production this year has created a new market crisis forcing farmers to sell the produce at throw away prices to incur heavy losses....

Guarding franchise We think from now on January 5, could be observed as the D Day (Death of Democracy) because on that day people of...

Medical negligence Every day we hear of deaths in road accidents. It does not surprise us. The other day, seven children were killed in the...

Alan Furth :Speaking at the United Nations in 2006, Hugo Chávez excoriated ex- US President George W. Bush as “the devil.” Chávez waved a copy...

Mamta Badkar :With economic growth at a ten-year low, the rupee down over 12% year-to-date against the dollar, capital outflows, and collapsing corporate profits, it’s...