Editorial

The government should take serious steps to stop adulteration of fertilizers as substandard agricultural input decreases yields. We know balanced use of fertilizer along with...

Sarah Bermeo :The world’s wealthiest countries today promote development abroad in a way that is relatively new. For centuries, some of these countries colonized the...

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...

Residential hall crisis at BSMRSTU Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University (BSMRSTU) is attended by approximately 9000 students, a large number of whom...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Over the last few decades, people in the developing world have been rejecting the intellectual property (IP) regime as it has been...

Md. Atikur Rahman :Better known for its natural disasters globally, Bangladesh still stands fifth among the top disaster risk countries in the world. It is...

THERE are thousands of others who hold the existing quota system responsible for not getting the job a meritorious candidate deserves. Currently, only 44 percent...

THE state-owned banks (SoBs) again asked the government for Tk 20,398 crore in bailouts. Perhaps there is no easy way to launder and swindle taxpayers’...

Jessore roads in a bad shape A number of important districts in the southern part of the country are connected to the capital through Jessore,...

Robert Glick :At last we are moving to another crucial step in the Brexit process: the start of negotiations on a transition period. Businesses have...

Sam Alvis :Science, or at least technology, is intertwined with geopolitics. Scientists have always been globetrotters, sharing techniques and theories to better understand the world....