Editorial

BANGLADESH is back to a participatory election of sorts. Parties of all hue and colour have contested the 11th Parliamentary Election held in 299 constituencies...

LAW enforcers arrested 23 people from Nawabganj’s Bandura area before the election day over the distribution of money to influence the election in favour of...

US withdrawal from Syria US President Donald Trump has announced that the country will withdraw its troops from Syria. While there are only US 2,000...

M.G. Warrier :View: Erasers are made for those who make mistakes. Counter-view: Erasers are made for those ‘willing to’ correct mistakes.Quoted above is an excerpt...

Asian Cup Football 2019 The 17th Asian Cup Football Championship 2019 will be held in the United Arab Emirates from 5 January to 1 February...

Shruty Nishad :Superstitions have knowingly or unknowingly been a part of life. They have been doing rounds for many generations now and some places have...

Michael Kugelman :Khalilzad, the US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, had been on an urgent mission: Launch a peace process with the Taliban, and launch...

Shishir Reza :Every year, 8th November has been observed as world urbanism or world town planning day. This special day recognizes and promotes the role...

IN a span of only 48 hours, the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission for the second time slowed mobile internet speed by shutting down 3G and...

WHEN a number of opposition candidates were attacked and barred allegedly by the miscreants in many constituencies, some Returning Officers allegedly didn’t mention the incidents...

Selim Jahan :The lack of women’s empowerment is a critical form of inequality. And while there are many barriers to empowerment, violence against women and...

Godefroy Grosjean :Until the United Nations climate talks in Bonn last year, no clear plan to include agriculture in climate negotiations existed. This was troubling,...