Editorial

THE bad loans in the state-owned banks have risen by almost fourfold amidst series of loan scams where masterminds went scot-free mainly for inaction. The...

Watching BD TV programmes from CanadaI have been watching Bangladeshi TV programmes in different channels from Canada for over a year and greatly appreciate the...

Seemant Dadwal :Neha is a first-generation learner. Her mother, Hema, a maid, wants her only daughter to grow up to become a government servant. This,...

Cyrus Rustomjee :The blue economy-a concept and economic model that balances economic development with equity and environmental protection, and one that uses marine resources to...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :It is widely assumed that policy making is an exclusive preserve of the governmental structures and sub-structure as well as political...

THE number of recorded cases of Dengue infection this year hit 9,531, the highest in 18 years. The situation has made people of all spheres,...

THE Cabinet Committee on economic affairs on Tuesday approved a proposal for jointly establishing light rail transit in Narayanganj by a Singapore-based company with the...

Caroline Hickson :In Sicily, the prosecutor of Catania has ordered the trial of seven doctors in the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Cannizzaro Hospital...

Denis MacShane :Far from uniting Britain after the bitterly divisive Brexit referendum vote when just 37 per cent of the total British electorate voted to...

Brick kilns on farm land :We have seen many newspaper reports on how brick kilns are being set up without following the proper procedures and...

OVER 66 percent of the female terror suspects in the country got involved in militancy being influenced by their family members, mostly their husbands, according...

FOR the first time in the country, the government on November 15 introduced the ‘Smart School’ at Pirpur village of Alokdia Union Parishad in Chuadanga...