BNP seeks EC decision on using Khaleda image on posters
Dhaka, Dec 13 – BNP has sought Election Commission’s decision on using its jailed chairperson…
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AL to win 168 to 220 seats in Dec 30 election: Joy
Dhaka, Dec 13 – Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said the ruling…
Memory of Professor Wahiduddin Ahmed
MA Taher Khandakar A convoy of five vehicles started at 11:26 hours on 05/11/2018 (Monday)…
California, here we come!
by Nate Engle “California, here we come!” I was singing this phrase in my head…
A Bangladeshi remembers President George Bush Sr
by Ali Khan Republican Party Campaign Director Paul Manafort first introduced Bangladeshi Dr Prince Moosa…
Why I became a disaster expert
By Armen Grigoryan Nov 26 2018 (IPS) – Thirty years ago, a powerful earthquake ripped…
Bangladesh: Protests, arrests and their aftermath
By Nava Thakuria Bangladesh is a land of happenings. As the populous country is approaching…
Tribute to Indian environmental activist Latha Anantha
Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India Latha, well known environmental activist and…
Opinion: Giving capitalism a social conscience
David Bornstein For more than 40 years, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi founder of the Grameen…
Great development!
The size of the budget for 2017-18 fiscal year will cross the Tk 4 trillion…
Journalism as propaganda
by Simon Wren-Lewis A few days ago I took part in a Royal Economic Conference…
Bikalpa Dhara for law to appoint CEC, commissioners
Dhaka – Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh on Monday proposed enacting a law as per the Constitution…
Public universities recruit teachers through ‘unfair means’: TIB
Dhaka – Recruitment of teachers to public universities are these days done based on political…
EC’s views-exchange meeting with candidates in N’ganj Thursday
Dhaka – The Election Commission (EC) is going to hold a views-exchange meeting with mayoral…
Khaleda also offer election-time govt formula
Dhaka – After unveiling the proposals for forming a stronger Election Commission, BNP chairperson Khaleda…
SAARC is dead; long live SAARC
Why the cancellation of the 19th SAARC summit could mean new life for the regional…
Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defence
For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to…
Diagnostic or disease contracting centres?
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The other day a man in his early sixties was awaiting the…
The case for burning ivory
Chris Alden and Ross Harvey Jo’burg – Kenya is about to destroy its entire stockpile…
Trisha recalls her step father
Trisha Ahmed, stepdaughter of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, remembers him as a fun dad who…
PBI asks to re investigate new year sexual assaults
A court has ordered a reinvestigation of a series of sexual assaults on women at…
Bangladesh loses its way: Kuldip Nayar
Veteran Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar has expressed doubts about possibility of holding free and fair…
Ten inconvenient truths about Paris Climate Accord
Surya P. Sethi, India’s former Core Climate Negotiator To those who say the Paris Accord…
Greece’s other deficit
Alessandro Galli Oakland – For the past decade, much attention has been paid to Greece’s…
James Hansen, father of climate change awareness – Paris talks ‘a fraud’
The former Nasa scientist criticizes the talks, intended to reach a new global deal on…
Muslims must confront ‘extremist ideology’ : Obama
President Barack Obama urged Muslims Sunday to confront the “extremist ideology” in its midst and…
The Copenhagen-Paris Express
by Lars Christian Lilleholt COPENHAGEN – In 2009, when Copenhagen hosted the United Nations Climate…
Pragmatism in Climate Policy
by Oliver Geden BERLIN – The diplomatic effort to forge an international agreement to mitigate…
Iqbal Sobhan calls for more women participation
Prime Minister’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury today called for increasing participation of women in…
Asma Jahangir blasts Pak govt
Pakistani rights activist Asma Jahangir came down hard on her government for demonstrating disproportionately high…