Editorial

THE rift between the Chief Election Commissioner and an Election Commissioner has deepened further over the issue of level playing field. A day after CEC...

THE New Nation in a report yesterday said that at least 18 people, including a UP Chairman, were killed and 100 others seriously injured in...

Honking on the city streets I had recently visited Thailand after a gap of 33 years. When I last went there back in 1985 before...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury :The notion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later, South Africa) was concocted by Goldman Sachs’ Jim...

Thalif Deen :The UN’s major donors – led by the United States – have long been accused of influence-peddling and misusing their financial clout not...

MYANMAR military has launched new rounds of “clearance operations” in Rakhine State after four local Buddhists were attacked and two were later found with their...

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...

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...

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...