Editorial

Taslim Ahammad :In the present day the new technologies, in particular access to the internet, tend to modify communication between the different players in the...

THE fraud syndicates in connivance with some dishonest clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents in the last two years released 4,000 consignments from Chattogram Port using...

THE traffic signals at important and busiest intersections in the capital have now become only fossilised symbols of one of many ineffective traffic management efforts...

Richard Gingras :The European Publishers Council uses strong language in their op-ed published in EURACTIV when it describes our position on Europe’s copyright reform. We...

Rhoda Weeks-Brown :Al Capone had a problem: he needed a way to disguise the enormous amounts of cash generated by his criminal empire as legitimate...

Shishir Reza :More than 170 million people are living in Bangladesh which is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Agriculture plays...

THE bike of Shahanaj Akhter, who became a social media sensation recently for her struggle to maintain her family by offering ridesharing services, was recovered...

BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been defeated in the Parliament. It’s the worst parliamentary defeat for a British government since the 1920s....

Unbearable air pollution in city With the arrival of winter, the level of air pollution has sharply risen in Dhaka city. The city has been...

For hawker-free footpaths Most of the roads of Dhaka city were hawker-free for some days in the run up to – and in the aftermath...

Vicky Kapur :Japanese billionaire and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa’s recently tweet promising a cash giveaway of one million yen each (about Dh33,700) to 100...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader :In 2016, Turkey became the first country to deploy ground combat troops to fight the so-called Islamic State in Syria. Our military...