Editorial

APPAREL exporters have sought more facilities from the government to implement the new wages board for the workers, claiming that the export-oriented apparel sector received...

THE month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair was formally inaugurated by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday. She distributed the ‘Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar’ (award) to...

EDUCATIONISTS and rights activists have called for immediately dropping two chapters from the Home Economics textbook for Secondary School Students as they fear those will...

Jenny Ricks :They said they cared about climate change but they flew in on private jets in record numbers. They said they cared about inequality...

George Ciccariello-Maher :No other day is more emblematic for Venezuelans than January 23. It was on this day that Venezuelans rose up and overthrew the...

Shalini Verma :Last month, a Dubai resident returned to the city to discover that a million dollars had been wiped out of his bank account...

Ensure justice for rape victims :Setting the credibility and transparency issues of the recent elections aside, one incident that occurred in relation to it which...

For patient-friendly footbridges at Shahbagh Like many other roads in the capital, the Shahbagh road has three footbridges. They are particularly important because two of...

Jan Lundius : In 1989 I watched Back to the Future, Part II by Robert Zemickis, a complicated story about a youngster who from 1985...

Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :People in Bangladesh are facing different types of problems. The most indispensable problem is poor governance in public sectors. The words...

Rosli Omar and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Owing to our varied circumstances and experiences, there are contradictory tendencies to either exaggerate or underestimate the power and...

IT’S not yet sure when the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas would start though over one year has elapsed after signing an agreement...