Editorial

OVER the past years Bangladesh Bank was never in full control of commercial banks and even its own activities from intervention by the Ministry of...

The whole system of education has been damaged beyond repair under the present government. The examination results at pre-university levels are manipulated at the direction...

AMID mounting losses in the state-run banks, the Ministry of Finance is speculating as to whether mergers among public sector banks will be sufficient to...

Drug abuse The number of drug addicts has increased dramatically in Bangladesh. A survey carried out last year found about seven to eight million drug...

Elizabeth Drew :As US President Donald Trump decamped to his mansion-cum-private club in Palm Beach, Florida, for the holidays, he left Washington, DC, on edge....

Ruchir Sharma :There is a popular narrative these days that President Trump is undermining America’s standing in the world and ceding the mantle of global...

Aditya Sinha :Recently at a niece’s engagement party her dad was a bit sore over the expenses. Perhaps it would have mattered less to him...

IN an attempt to detect and deport illegal immigrants, mainly Muslims, Indian authorities have mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in the sensitive border...

Roberto Savio :On 20 December, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels, to discuss the plan for reducing emissions prepared by the Commission, to...

Habiba Al Marashi :A growing number of businesses are realising the mistake of not being conscious of such a deeply ingrained issue within our society.The...

Hope anew in 2018 :We are on the doorstep of a new year. 2018 will usher in, but we do not hope for any change...

THE discovery of new biotech rice is indeed a good news when existing high yield rice varieties are facing slow down in production from growing...