Editorial

Fran Simone, PhD :At a recovery meeting for loved ones, we focused on fear which can crush and overpower. Often we project worst-case scenarios. A...

Expecting a fair DUCSU pollThe schedule for the Dhaka University Central Student’s Union (Ducsu) has been announced at last. After 28 years, Ducsu polls are...

DESPITE the recurrence of the fire incidence in the Old Dhaka, some businessmen are still reluctant to relocate the deadly chemical warehouses and factories and...

PRESIDENT Trump’s Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, meant to demonstrate his diplomatic gamble with North Korea is working, instead ended with no joint agreement...

Sunaina Kumar :It’s late afternoon, and the crowd of Rohingya women waiting at the Hope Field Hospital for Women in Kutupalong refugee camp has slowly...

Jeremy Sherman, PhD :I’m very supportive of the movement and it’s a great name for it. I do wish it was a bit more sex-positive....

How unfortunate! “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” It is a famous line from a poem by Percy B. Shelly which...

Remigio Maradona :As a physically challenged person, I can attest to the importance of our dignity, our rights, and well-being as necessary conditions for equality...

Jon Sopel :In a jaw dropping presidency has there ever been a more jaw dropping moment than the moment last June when Donald Trump walked...

Abdur Rahman Jahangir :Bangladesh economy’s impressive growth trajectory over the last decade has been buttressed by the demographic dividend resulting from a large portion of...

THE Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral by-election ended yesterday with very thin voters’ presence. There was widespread speculation that the ruling-party supported candidate is going...

BAD loans in the country’s banking system grew by 26.39 per cent in 2018, much higher than 19.51 per cent growth in 2017. Non-performing loans...