Editorial

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...

Helal Uddin Ahmed :The womenfolk of Bangladesh have played a glorious role in all national movements including the language movement of 1952, the mass upsurge...

A Bridge built 22 years ago over a canal at Chilarkandi village in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila remains unused as it has no approach roads. The...

Terming it a very serious issue, newly appointed Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said that he does not see any “easy” solution to the Rohingya...

Help build a pluralistic society It is said that violence is part and parcel of the sub-continental politics. Numerous historical events over hundreds of years...

Barbara Crossette :Amid a busy December, when the United Nations was focusing on important conferences on climate change and migration and year-end holidays loomed, a...

Laura Kuenssberg :“We’re going to get smashed” – one government insider’s apocalyptic prediction about one of the most important votes in recent political history, the...

Mohamed Ghouse Nasuruddin :Man’s thought process is the result of a combination of his biological, hereditary neuro mechanism, the environment, belief system, educative process and...

UNABATED sand lifting from the Dhaleshwari River in Tangail could result in losing vast locality to river erosion. Dhaleshwari, a tributary of the Jamuna, flows...