Editorial

WITHIN a year of completion, overloaded lorries and high number of vehicles plying have created ruts on the expanded Dhaka-Chattogram highway. Twice as many vehicles...

THE sensational murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, has raised question about the political career of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,...

Need technical and vocational training For a country like Bangladesh, human capital can be the main driving force for economic development and prosperity. According to...

Control vehicle horns I had recently visited Thailand after a gap of 33 years. When I last went there back in 1985 before this visit,...

Ted Widmer :On Nov. 11, 1918, a delegation of German representatives, not entirely sure that they represented their crumbling government, made their way through the...

Jorge Valero :Foreign companies have encountered problems related to the protection of intellectual property in China but most, if not all, want to continue doing...

Prof. Dr. Gobinda Chandra Das :The World Diabetes Day will be observed around the world, including in Bangladesh, on November 14. The day is a...

THE directives to ensure discipline in traffic system issued by higher authorities have failed to bring any result. The traffic rule violation is still rampant....

AMID widespread speculation about a big push in the mid-term polls, US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party in a dramatic way has retained control of...

Use hydroelectricity for green energy I recently came across a news item on hydro-power production in Asian countries. Bangladesh, with a capacity of just 230...

Jennifer Morgan :The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global...

Paul Krugman :Everyone is delivering post-mortems on Tuesday’s elections, so for what it’s worth, here’s mine: Despite some bitter disappointments and lost ground in the...