Editorial

A leading daily recently reported that around 51 per cent of registered non-government organizations based in Dhaka do not file income tax returns to escape...

The shame of corporal punishment I read with great interest that last Saturday (January 13) Bangladesh celebrated its 7th Anniversary of the law that bans...

M.I. Rahman :Great men are not born all the time. All great men are the products of history. History does not produce great men time...

Leonid Bershidsky :Two big shareholders of Apple are right to add their influential voices to those concerned with smartphone addiction. If they are serious about...

MORE than just holding small and big scale elections, it’s time the Election Commission realise that it is essential to ensure the national elections is...

COUNTRY’S prominent think-tank, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), revealed that there is an asymmetry between export and import growth of garments, cotton, edible oil and...

James Plunkett :Imagine strolling with a neighbour to the corner shop, only to be charged more than her for buying the same box of cornflakes....

Felino A. Palafox, JR. :Millennials are the natives of the digital infrastructure. They have the privilege of having been born in a time when everything...

HUMAN rights campaigner Odhikar said that at least 139 people fell victims to ‘crossfire’ and 86 to enforced disappearances in Bangladesh in 2017. Besides, 59...

REFERRING to a survey of Ministry of Social Welfare, a national English daily on Sunday reported that around 40,000 of the Rohingya children have lost...

Healthcare for the poor There is a serious shortage of healthcare facilities in the public hospitals, while for poor people, private medical facilities are inaccessible....

Felino A. Palafox, JR. :The times call for active measures to combat climate change. People have again and again relayed the words: reuse, reduce, recycle....