Editorial

THE traders at Bashundhara city shopping mall in Dhaka on Saturday confined Customs Intelligence Officials for seizing illegally imported 262 units of mobile handsets worth...

Using university buses for political programmes On the occasion of the 29th national council of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), which was held on May 11,...

Natasha Ezrow :All around the world, democracy is looking shaky. While consolidated democracies are struggling to stay healthy, many flawed ones have turned into outright...

Dearth of skilled teachers in rural schools The pass rate of this year’s SSC exams is 77.77 percent whereas last year it was 80.35 percent....

M A Hossain :When Saudi King Salman accorded a royal reception to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister and sought Dhaka’s active participation in the Saudi-led coalition...

Tash Aw :Not long after midnight, the crowd of thousands in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia began to sense that something historic was taking place. They had...

Mohammad Amjad Hossain :President Donald Trump of the United States of America has in fact disregarded tradition of the United States and international law for...

AS the monsoon threatens the Rohingya refugees with the outbreak of vector-borne epidemics and diarrhoeal diseases, the repatriation process seems to be getting more and...

AS per news media most of the banks listed with the stock exchanges registered a profit fall in January-March compared with the same period in...

Shamshad Akhtar :Inequality is increasing in Asia and the Pacific. Our region’s remarkable economic success story belies a widening gap between rich and poor. A...

Natalia Kanem :Elizabeth Ayumpou Balang was married as a teenager in Rumbek, South Sudan, and had a child at 18. Yet she held on to...

Imran Rahman :It is more than four decades and a half since the inception of Bangladesh as a sovereign country in the world map. By...