Editorial

Two brutal events – one in India and another in Pakistan – signals of total insecurity of women in those two countries, disrespect for human...

ACCORDING to a study by the Bangladesh Bank, the use of remittances in non-productive sectors is very high causing anxiety among financial experts who are...

THE government and private developers are at constant work to fill up vast areas of seasonally-flooded wetlands in and around the capital city Dhaka and...

Thailand’s national elections were marred by protests and ended with inconclusive results that were likely to extend the country’s political paralysis. Thailand’s national elections were...

A government survey, conducted on 12, 600 married women across the country a few days ago, reveals that nearly nine out of ten husbands severely...

Arup Barua & Shidratul Muntaha :Earthquake is considered one of the most destructive and terrifying natural forces. The notion ‘Earthquake’ itself generates fear into human...

Dr Jamal Khan :FOR some time, more precisely since the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the advent of decolonisation in Africa,...

THE month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2014 opened on Saturday in the Bangla Academy premises which extended to nearby Suhrawardy Uddyan in the city highlighting...

THE guardians are still in confusion, as reported in a local English daily on Saturday last, about the safety and effectiveness of MR vaccination and...

China-US interest conflict over Pacific China’s newly declared China’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), is seen as the Beijing’s strategy to become a super power....

Shamsuddin Ahmed :The dispute over increasing encroachment of Sri Lankan water territory by Indian fishermen is turning into political confrontation between the two countries. The...

Neil Berry :Tony Blair will not go away. Last week in a fashionable London restaurant a young barman who regards him as a war criminal...