Editorial

Let the election usher in success :The date for the next general election has been fixed, it will be held on December 30, 2018. But...

ON Thursday, at least 13 people, including seven women, were killed in road accidents in six districts. The unending road accidents so far have taken...

Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :The central bank came into being 300 years back. Since its inception, the central banks are globally plying a significant role...

THE European Parliament has announced that it will not observe the upcoming national election in Bangladesh. The European Union’s top diplomat in Dhaka indicated that...

Paul Makin :Mobile phones are helping millions of low-income customers to access financial services for the first time, but they are also exposing them to...

Promoting state owned products in Tax Fair The weeklong “Income Tax Fair” of 2018 in Dhaka and other divisional headquarters across the country has been...

Armen Grigoryan :Thirty years ago, a powerful earthquake ripped through my home country of Armenia, leaving 25,000 dead, 500,000 homeless and annihilating an estimated 40...

Lisa Cornish :Supporting peacekeeping is at the core of the International Civil Society Action Network, or ICAN, which builds networks at the local level to...

International Organization for Migration :Health services for people affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh received a boost this week, when IOM, the UN...

DUE to a lack of proper action plan, Dhaka city’s microclimate situation is rapidly worsening, making a major impact on its development and habitation. Speakers...

AN elderly woman Mazkura Ayub (63) can’t walk as she fails to put her feet flat on the ground and also move three fingers of...

BBC :In small villages along the eastern coast of Bangladesh, researchers have noticed an unexpectedly high rate of miscarriage. As they investigated further, scientists reached...