Editorial

Gazi Md. Abdur Rashid :The present government is better known and popular as education friendly than any other government in the past. Realizing the importance...

MORE than half of poor households will live in urban areas by 2030 while 8 in 10 poor currently live in the country’s rural areas....

FIVE fishermen jumped into the water without any lifesaving equipment when their trawler capsized in the Bay near Sonar Char under Rangabali upazila on September...

Children In Climate Movement It has been heartening to read about and see visuals of the protests staged by millions of school students across the...

Shishir Reza :The level of sound pollution is very closely related with urbanisation and motorisation. Excessive noise may cause irritation, fatigue, dilation of pupils of...

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee :During the recent “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston, which welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States, a bald man...

THE Road Transport and Bridges Ministry has started working on the Prime Minister’s directives to collect tolls from vehicles plying the four-lane highways without any...

AT a time when children of Harijan, a community that largely serves our society as sweepers and cleaners, are stymied by gross discrimination, a group...

Jan Lundius :In a 1974 article, Woody Allen poked fun at biblical stories presenting ludicrous paraphrases of The Book of Job, Abraham´s intended sacrifice of...

Saleh Akram :After repeated occasions of frustration and disappointment from the unruly and defiant road transport operators of the country, the government has formed a...

WITH Dhaka eagerly waiting for the signing of the Teesta Water-Sharing Deal, Bangladesh and India signed a MoU allowing India to take 1.82 cusec water...

THE surprising development of some vested quarters in misappropriating public money is not few in this saga of development. The latest story of an eight-member...