Editorial

NEWS media reported that the government has decided to take a further Tk 235 crore from Wage Earners’ Welfare Board (WEWB) to meet the required...

WC Football 2018 The four Asian representatives in the galaxy of 32 in the World Cup (WC) Football 2018 are Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and...

Tutu Alicante :A French court’s decision on 27 October to convict (in abstentia) Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (commonly known as “Teodorin”), the vice-president of Equatorial...

Friday Phiri :As negotiators meet in Bonn to put together a deal to implement the Paris Agreement, John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at...

Paul Callan and Karim Aziz :From New Delhi to Cairo, pedestrians and drivers have long suffered from poor road conditions with dangerous consequences. According to...

FIVE foreign ministers from top Asian and European countries including a few high-ups of the European Union have started arriving in Dhaka since yesterday for...

RAPIDLY increasing air and water pollution threw pollinators in the Sunderbans on the verge of extinction threatening the world’s largest mangrove forest’s flora. Severe air...

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Economists of all persuasions recognize the critical role of finance in economic growth. The financial sector’s stability and depth...

Pascal Laureyn :In Laos, the lush forests are alive with the whines of drills that pierce the air. On the Mekong, a giant concrete wall...

We are feeling lost :As a citizen of Bangladesh, I think it is my sacred duty to speak out about issues, which are harmful for...

IN a landmark event, the OIC’s draft resolution of the Rohigya crisis was passed at the United Nations on Thursday. Some 171 countries of the...

THE government moves to increase holding tax in Dhaka and Chittagong cities by up to nine times at a time seems to be highly arbitrary...