Editorial

Dr James M Dorsey :Natural gas could well emerge as the litmus test of how relations among the Gulf’s energy-rich monarchies evolve if and when...

Sir Frank Peters :If, as they say ‘ignorance is bliss’, Supreme Court justices Md. Imman Ali and Md. Sheikh Hassan Arif have profuse apologies to...

PRESIDENT Abdul Hamid on Monday said commercial courses were turning public universities into business organisations and also disrupting the educational atmosphere on the campus. “Thousands...

EVERY four years, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council reviews Bangladesh’s human rights situation as part of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). During the UPR...

Neil Howard :Recent years have seen a huge increase in public, political and media attention focused on “modern slavery”. Widely decried as a contemporary evil...

Aftab Alam :The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government at the centre is all set to introduce the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the...

THE High Court has directed the Department of Environment (DoE) and Dhaka WASA to take effective steps to stop polluting Buriganga River. On Sunday, the...

A REPORT published recently by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said that quality of service of state-owned mobile phone operator Teletalk was the lowest in four...

Md Billal Hossen :Enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race,...

SEVERAL hundred students of Stamford University Bangladesh continued demonstrations for the second consecutive day on Saturday at Siddheshwari and Dhanmondi in Dhaka demanding justice for...

CHIEF Justice of India SA Bobde in the context of the extrajudicial murder of four alleged rapists on Saturday said that justice lost its very...

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest’ protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich’ campaign, is not...