Editorial

THE World Bank has retained economic growth projections for Bangladesh at 6.4 per cent for the current fiscal year 2017-2018, much lower than the government’s...

Time to make good on promises Finally, the hunger strike of the teachers of non-MPO educational institutions came to an end following the prime minister’s...

Adam Traczyk and Jan Jakub Chromiec :The weak spot of the Union is not just the right balance between more or less integration. Instead, its...

Sir Frank Peters :It doesn’t matter from which angle you look; corporal punishment isn’t pretty. It serves no useful purpose whatsoever, but causes untold damage...

Stuart Rutherford :Bangladeshis have a long tradition of borrowing from family, neighbors and other informal sources. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have proliferated over the past three...

WHILE the cost of living for millions of Dhaka residents keeps going higher with little to no change in their income, the situation is not...

THE Education Ministry on Monday ordered closure of all coaching centres from three days prior to beginning of Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations...

Dissolution of marriageThe Indian Supreme Court in a ruling has said that triple talak (divorce) is a crime. I have not read the full text...

Fraser Cameron :Much of the European commentary following publication of President Trump’s national security strategy (NSS) in December was highly critical. But despite the well-known...

Barrister Nazir Ahmed :Late Justice Murshed’s outstanding legal career and landmark judgments have made him known both within and outside the legal arena. Through his...

THE price of gold has raised up to Tk 1,400 a bhori [11.664 gm] in the local market from Wednesday crossing the Tk 50,000 mark...

THE country’s natural forest reserves faced the highest deforestation between 2006 and 2014 due to the Forest Department’s (DoF) repeated failure to play its role,...