Balancing trade wars
Sunita Narain :A global trade war has broken out. The United States fired the first salvo and there has been retaliation by the European Union,...
Editorial
A plea for Rohingya refugees
António Guterres :Small children butchered in front of their parents. Girls and women gang-raped while family members were tortured and killed. Villages burned to the...
Coal missing at Barapukuria
THE Barapukuria coal-fired power plant is going to shut down immediately for an indefinite period as its fuel mysteriously disappeared from a yard. Two units...
EC must end dilly-dally process in providing NID cards
ABOUT 1.1 crore voters, who were included in the voter list after 2012, have not yet got the laminated NID cards. Although the Election Commission...
Readers’ Forum
Save local fish from extinction The availability of native fish like koi, puti, mola-dhela, shol, magur, shing, chitol, gozar, etc. in natural water bodies is...
UAE and China drive new world order
Bikram Vohra :The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the UAE is a vitally important milestone on the Belt and Road initiative which is...
No Prime Ministers of Pakistan could complete 5-yr tenure
Saeed Qureshi :Recently one of my email interlocutors Mr. Shuja-ur-Rahman Khan sent me an interesting and revealing email. This email recapitulates the democratic and constitutional...
Revitalising the life of urban poor
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. M Abul Kashem Mozumder :The state seeks poverty reduction through welfare strategies, social insurance, compensation programs, income maintenance, curative...
CHT people must be assured sense of participation: Fear of force doesn`t win people
THE lack of government’s desire over holding elections to the regional council and the three District Councils in Chattogram Hill Tracts has long been depriving...
No effective measures yet against rampant capital flight
LAUNDERING of money has become a common phenomenon at the moment when the country just stepped out from the high risk country list in money...
Immigration: Myths and realities
Roberto Savio :According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955...
Quota reform movement: A review
Nasir Ahmed : This is Bangladesh ¾ a so-called great example of flourishing economy. Goons, the student wing of ruling party, are beating up students whoever...