This year's budget eventually turned sour though its components are fine. The major aspects of the budget can be fit into a pentagon model that has five components.

Globalisation conceived and led by the western world has failed to deliver on most of its promises to the majority of the globe's inhabitants.

As the Lion goes in for the kill of the Kangaroo, the Tiger gets ready for the semi-finals. This is one day when every Bangladeshi is an

Saudi Arabia, in its bid to become leader of the Arab world, has once again raised tension in the Middle East, albeit at Donald Trump's instigation.

Like me, many haven't lost faith in adult education yet. In fact, I just read about a 74-year old PhD scholar. The oldest doctoral graduate of Sichuan University conducted his doctoral dissertation defence at the age of 74.

Tension is again rising in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia and its allies (mainly other Gulf countries) abruptly cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism in the region.

Is this the “tolerant society” we envisaged as the outcome of our independence struggle?

While we learned not to put all eggs in one basket, dumping all rotten apples in one basket might seem rather prudent. When two

The horizontal axis of the graph surely extends from the right to the left, Middle Eastern style. That is the only explanation for

One cannot but marvel at the sense of proportion, or the lack of it, of the finance minister.

Early morning tweets are something I wake up to and they form the structure of my day. Most news items shape the next 16 hours.

Over the past couple of years British political landscape has undergone dramatic changes. When David Cameron won a Conservative

…the government in Bangladesh, instead of holding bankers accountable, bailed out the fraud-riddled banks using thousands of crores worth of taxpayers' money, year after year

I want to focus on a little known Article of the Paris Agreement, which may well come to haunt the US and will be an unintended consequence of the US withdrawing from it.

Bangladesh's national budget for FY2018 comes at a challenging time. Despite being powered by high growth and cushioned by low international prices, the Bangladesh economy has been facing a number of disquieting features.

The budget, which is basically an annual outline of fiscal policy, has over time turned into an all-encompassing document for the

It is the time when the head of the roadside restaurant is covered up during lunchtime as we only see the legs, knees downwards. Just

Ekushey Padak awardee, sculptor Hamiduzzaman Khan Sir was my senior colleague at university. It's been quite a while, close to a decade, since we last met. After all these years consulting Sir was critical, because I was exploring the possibility of his art objects adorning the garden of a bungalow I designed.

As the news of the cyclone named Mora (a Thai word which means 'star of the sea') erupted on social and traditional media, I couldn't

“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.”