Editorial

HALDA river in Chattogram, the lone source of natural carp breeding in South Asia, is now surrounded by a number of unplanned projects like rubber...

A GOOD number of financially insolvent diabetic patients regularly come to Dhaka from different remote areas for treatment free of cost at hospitals, mainly BIRDEM...

THE landscape and ecosystem in Tangail are under threat due to flattening of hillocks by influential people. One of the Pleistocene terraces, Tangail Sal Forest...

Road blockers must be penalised We regularly witness roads being blockaded by people over trivial matters. This hampers smooth movement of vehicles, causing extensive traffic...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader :Worsening weather conditions are driving farmers in Bangladesh out of their homes. Many parts of Bangladesh are under severe threat of future...

Rosa Prince :The more angry her own members of parliament grew at her swing away from a hard Brexit, the more sympathy she seemed to...

Shishir Reza :Nowadays urban centers are the powerhouse of economic growth and centre of all innovation and empowerment; they contribute over 80 percent of the...

Young voice in politics Politics remains more or less an unpopular vocation and an extremely debatable topic in our country-more so for many young people...

Rajpal Abeynayake :If the people’s voice is not heard, the country would be rife for revolution. It would be a real one, not of the...

Helen Castell :While 15 percent of the world’s population lives with a disability, prevalence is even higher in low- and middle-income countries. Here, people with...

NEW United States ambassador in Dhaka Robert Earl Miller said that his country expected the upcoming December 30 elections in Bangladesh to be free, fair...

BANGLADESH on Tuesday observed International Migrants Day when the country itself is experiencing bitter taste of slow remittance due to drastic fall in overseas job...