Editorial

Give due coverage on sports We are sorry to say that neither the print nor the electronic media takes proper steps to quench the thirst...

Edward Jones, Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin :Starting from a few, mostly Middle Eastern facilities in the 1960s, today almost 16,000 desalination plants are in...

Dave Lindorff :The time has come to cut the US military down to size. Last November, the Pentagon admitted what critics have known for years:...

IN a surprise visit to 11 government hospitals and health complexes in eight districts including Dhaka on Tuesday, the Anti-Corruption Commission found 92 doctors out...

THE gap between rich and poor people continues to widen in Bangladesh, which also ranks among those countries with the fastest-growing number of very wealthy...

Rohingyas must return The governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh seem to agree that forcibly displaced people from the Rakhine State of Myanmar, who are currently...

Michelle Alexander :On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the lectern at...

Michael M. Lokshin :In the modern system of criminal justice, the sentence imposed on such a perpetrator should prevent that person from repeating the crime,...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday suspended one of its directors for allegedly leaking information about its investigation beforehand and also having nexus with the accused....

THE government has banned import and sale of meat and bone meal, a protein concentrate for poultry, because of its health risks to human and...

Public hospitals not for private practice Medical professionals in Bangladesh command considerable respect from people. However, the health sector is increasingly becoming a private affair....

Alex Thier :The abrupt resignation of World Bank President Jim Kim with three years left in his term raises important questions about the institution and...