Editorial

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...

Giandomenico Picco and Gabrielle Rifkind :News that the Assad government is ready to send a minister abroad for talks with the leader of the opposition...

Rahul Goswami :Some time next year, we are told, the countries that form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will form an economic union....

Dr Jamal Khan : (From previous issue) The commission, however, needs to be careful in retaining a sufficient number of personnel with adequate control over...

The poor potato growers Agriculture Minister Matia Choudhury said on the occasion of Agriculturist Day 2014 at Agriculture Institution Hall on Thursday in the capital,...

NEWS reports said despite having excess liquidity in their vaults, 18 commercial banks did not disburse any credit to farmers to grow four types of...

CHILDREN are moving away from the reading habit to vulgar electronic based entertainments which is taking an alarming turn to defeat our efforts to create...

A STUDY conducted by ‘Ain O Shalish Kendra’ and reported recently by an English daily made a stunning disclosure that in our existing legal system...

POOR planning and mismanagement of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is again on the headlines as the state owned trading body is going to...

Establish more technical schools BRAC has a good number of primary schools completing 5 years primary schooling curriculum in four years. BRAC has also been...