Editorial

Women alone not responsible for divorce Divorce rate in Bangladesh is increasing and some people have put the blame squarely on independent working women for...

Mark Dummett :Abdul Bari had run out of luck. Like thousands of other people in East Bengal, he had made the mistake – the fatal...

Lorraine Boissoneault:Blood wrote this dispatch two weeks into the bloody massacre that would lead to the birth of Bangladesh. Unlike the Rwandan genocide, or the...

THE nation celebrates the 48th Victory Day today amid festivity. Today, the nation will remember its glorious historical achievement earned through a nine-month war against...

THE New Nation on Saturday reported that at least 300 opposition men were arrested in a span of only 48 hours on Wednesday and Thursday...

Generating hydroelectricity I recently came across a news item on hydro-power production in Asian countries. Bangladesh, with a capacity of just 230 MW, was ranked...

Sallyann Della Casa :This role can result in your organisation improving its chances of innovating, considering all sides of a problem and solution and making...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader :Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with a population of over 160 million and a projected...

Ban Ki-moon :One of my proudest accomplishments as the former UN secretary-general was playing a part in the ambitious global agenda for sustainable development (SDGs),...

BANGLADESH wants to explore the potentials of sending skilled workers to Japan as the country is likely to open its job market for foreign workers....

THE telecoms regulator has collected sensitive personal data of about seven crore cell phone users without their consent and shared those with another government agency...

Isaiah Esipisu As thousands of environmental technocrats, policy makers and academics work round the clock to come up with strategies for mitigation and adaptation to...