Editorial

Robert J. Samuelson :Whatever the virtues of the Olympics, economics is not one of them. As we enjoy this year’s winter games in South Korea,...

Rangita de Silva de Alwis : “No amount of pressure will deter me from representing women in distress. It has been my life’s mission. Till the...

Amina J. Mohammed :It may seem as if achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, and its target of ending all violence against children, depends mostly...

QUESTION leakage during the ongoing SSC examination showed that the government has no power and the Education Ministry has no control over the corrupt people...

Harassment in the name of inspection A few days ago, I was returning from Khulna to Dhaka by bus. When I reached Gabtali, suddenly an...

Sir Frank Peters :A highway billboard in Amarillo, Texas, that screams ‘beat your children’ to thousands of passing onlookers daily is creating a raucous across...

Danila Bochkarev :On 23 November 2016, the European Commission released a communication on strengthening Europe’s energy networks focused on the network interconnections. According to the...

Francesco Molica and Nikos Lampropoulos :Globalisation makes territories and their problems more interdependent than ever requiring collective responses across the border. Macro-regional strategies provide an...

THE UN special envoy on Thursday said, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has clearly failed to stand up for the Rohingyas, and can well be...

A CITIZEN platform reported that at least 21 women were either ‘raped’ or ‘gang-raped’ in public transports across the country in the last 13 months....

Janani Vivekananda :World leaders on international security policy meet in Munich this week to discuss the most pertinent security risks facing the world today. High...

Luisa Enria :Revelations that Oxfam workers paid for prostitutes in Haiti as the organisation was supporting survivors of the earthquake in 2011 have reopened a...