Editorial

David Loew :The world is 20 cases away from making polio history. So far this year, only 20 people have been diagnosed with polio, contracted...

THE Junior School Certificate (JSC) and its equivalent Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exams will begin on Thursday (November 1). More than 26 lakh students will...

THE 10th parliament ended yesterday without any effective move from titular opposition bench (Jatiya Party) to protect people’s rights or oppose passing any authoritarian law....

DU question leakage The fact that the question paper for “Gha” unit at Dhaka University was leaked before the admission test is depressing. We welcome...

Vani S. Kulkarni :On September 24, the government launched the grand government-funded healthcare scheme, the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). While some see...

Udo Bullmann :Our democracies in Europe are under attack from all sides – and online manipulations through fake news are at the heart of this...

Kelli Rogers :Southeast Asian nations are among the worst offenders when it comes to sending plastic pollution straight into the ocean. With four of the...

Commuters have been suffering immensely as transport workers started a 48-hour countrywide work abstention on Sunday to press home their eight-point demand mainly related to...

Hundreds of youths demanding extension of age limit up to 35 for entering government jobs blocked Shahbagh intersection for a few hours for the last...

Reading for pleasure It gives me pain to see that the habit of reading has been declining among our younger generation. While technology is steadily...

Jon Van Housen and Mariella Radaelli :Europe is steering clear of direct involvement in the escalating US-China trade war as it urges negotiation and adjudication...

Catherine Rottenberg :Over the past few months, pundits have obsessed over the unprecedented surge in the number of female candidates in the upcoming congressional elections...