Editorial

Benjamin Fox :One single sentence devoted to space activities in the EU-UK political declaration states that “the Parties should consider appropriate arrangements for co-operation on...

Jan te Bos :Buildings account for more than 40% of the EU’s energy bill and are responsible for over a third of European carbon-dioxide emissions.Still,...

Being deprived of any job opportunity, some injured garment workers of Tazreen Fashions have set up an example by setting a mini-factory after six years...

Bangladesh Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust laid off all the 20 industries it owned as corruption, inefficiency and the government’s faulty policy made them sick. In August,...

Economic inequality – involving both income and wealth concentration – has risen in nearly all world regions since the 1980s. Gross economic inequalities moderated for...

Cameron Diver :We live on a “blue planet” where water covers around 75 percent of the Earth’s surface. Without water we would simply not survive...

Frédéric Sansier and Hervé Conan :Today, 90% of jobs require a minimum level of digital skills, and 42% of Europeans who do not have them...

Food adulteration! :We consume food to live. Yet how safe are the foods that we are consuming on a daily basis? Many of what we...

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...

POLITICAL crisis in the South Asian island nation Sri Lanka is taking a worse turn. Three top Sri Lankan leaders have recently held talks for...

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,...