Editorial

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...

M.N. Hebbar :It was a widely held belief in the EU that the crisis was all about government profligacy that was now compelled to make...

Several years ago, in the Asia-Pacific Water Development Outlook 2007, the Prime Minister of India stated that “…if all members of society can have adequate...

Kajal Basu :The riotous aftermath of the AAP’s ascension to power has helped the beleaguered Congress party in significant ways. One is, of course, Delhi...

TILL the last moment, I was secure in my belief that the government would come to an understanding with the opposition and hold an election...

A decade after filing the arms hauling case a special court in Chittagong on Thursday handed down death sentences and life terms to former ministers...

A REPORT in a local daily mentioned that poachers are indiscriminately hunting and selling birds, especially herons, posing a serious threat to wildlife at Hakaluki...

NEWS reports said 39 companies have applied to float Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) of their shares to the stock market in view of the gradual...

NEWS reports in a local daily mentioned that the government is going to upgrade the status of headmasters of government primary schools to Class II...

Mahir Ali :It is hard not to sympathise with Lakhdar Brahimi, the Algerian diplomat entrusted with the impossibly tricky task of mediating between some of...

Philippe Leroux-Martin :The United Nations initiative to hold peace talks between the government of Bashar Al Assad and the Syrian opposition won backing from Nato...