Editorial

LEGENDARY Bengali cine-idol and super actress Suchitra Sen is no more and we mourn her death with the people of the Indian sub-continent and especially...

NEWS reports on Thursday in some national dailies said that the government of Saudi Arabia is applying some non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to several Bangladeshi export...

Ibne SirajDespite intense efforts at both diplomatic and summit levels, Sheikh Hasina’s 2009-2013 regime could not have its two important pledges fulfilled with India. The...

Harold MeyersonWhen President Obama delivers his State of the Union address this month, he will surely highlight the issue of growing economic inequality and argue...

Noah Feldman Do corporations have a right to religious liberty? The contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act has made this abstract-sounding question into the...

Welcome news Finally the International Cricket Council has agreed that no obstacle is there to hold the Asian Cricket Cup and the World T-20 Cricket...

GROWTH of fresh bank deposits dropped to 16.80 per cent in the January-November (2013) period against a 20 per cent growth in the corresponding period...

The electoral drill, conducted by the Election Commission (EC) that enabled 292 candidates to become members of the parliament has now come to an end....

Egypt hasn’t made international headlines for a while, but Egyptians themselves have still been making news. The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood that began after...

Communal attack must end Last parliamentary elections are marked with waves of violence, particularly against minority communities. Some villagers especially in Jessore district were attacked...

THE present Syrian civil war had its roots in the Arab Spring of 2011-a series of disparate events which resulted in regime changes in several...

THE tea industry must have a new lease of life to expand both in acreage and also in per acre output to increase the total...