Editorial

Kentaro Toyama :Most of us engage in some kind of teamwork, whether it’s for projects at the office, coordination for a community event, or organising...

Developing the countryside There are a number of different types of development that every country needs-social, economic, in its governing institutions, etc. Bangladesh is a...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage In the midst of international outrage over the alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, human rights groups have called for a United...

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. M Abul Kashem Mozumder :There is a heartening news that number of poor in Bangladesh has decreased (about onecrore...

Bullet-riddled bodies of six unidentified youths, aged between 25 and 35, were found at Araihazar and Turag areas in Narayanganj and Dhaka yesterday. Of them,...

DESPITE being mired in loan scams, the state-owned Janata Bank has been granting undue favour to yet another big borrower, allowing the company to open...

Banning Laguna causing public hazards In September, the police banned the Laguna, a small passenger-carrier, in many areas of the capital. While I agree that...

Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, and Anne Oeking Workers’ remittances – the money migrants send home to their families – command the attention of...

Dr. Foqan Uddin Ahmed :The term nationalism is different from both nation and nationality. Nationalism is the spiritual force which holds a nation in a...

The Saudi Kingdom has ultimately confirmed that writer and critic Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul city. Saudi state media...

EVERYBODY knows that rampant extortion on the roads and highways is a major reason for lawlessness and the culture of impunity that prevails in the...

Jana Hainsworth :25 million children in the EU face poverty today. No country, including the richest nations in the EU, can claim to be free...