The government must realise that it is against heavy odds, that it faces an organised group that is well led both at the strategic and tactical level as evident from the recent conduct of the killings.

When you go to a Chinese mall, you haggle to the last cent. I remember being rudely pulled aside and being told by a Chinese vendor...

What is striking is that finance ministers of the G7 countries, who met from May 20-21, 2016, could not agree on the fiscal policy that the G7 should adopt collectively to address global economic weakness. Japan and the US called members to boost fiscal stimulus, but Germany and Britain insisted on fiscal austerity.

Fahim's was always a larger than life presence. Never a moment without his infectious smile, always the first to come up with a joke suitable for the occasion, never shying away from pulling someone's leg, almost always taking us by surprise with his ready wit and always able to turn a rather serious encounter into a more pleasant occasion with his superb social skills.

After the Paris Agreement on climate change endorsed by every participating country last December at the 21st Conference of

Antibiotic resistance is the new bacterial normal. About a hundred years ago with the discovery of penicillin, the antibiotic revolution commenced the era of modern medicine.

This is your Chief, whatever you meant by that. Can you hear me?

When people resist what the government would like to wholesale, impose, or force-feed as “development”, democracy seems quite at ease to quell people's resistances, violate pledges and dismiss the age-old demands of the adivasi communities.

Predictably the issue of 'illegal migration' had featured most predominantly in the latest state elections in Assam.

It is easy to miss stories about child domestic workers being tortured and killed. Easy because stories of children being killed have become eerily regular.

State Assembly Elections were recently held in five states of India – Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry. Let us look at West Bengal and Assam – two bordering states of Bangladesh.

The murders of bloggers, intellectuals, priests, academicians, rights activists, and also persons of ordinary vocations committed by allegedly extremist groups...

The fact that the country's actual default loan amount - including that of written-off loans - in the country's banking sector has exceeded Taka 1 trillion mark for the first time, qualifies us to be one of the leaders of the corporate shame club.

You do not necessarily have to be an Awami League aficionado to appreciate that the two mayors of Dhaka City, albeit split along

One of the common dilemmas we face in our everyday life is when to call it quits. Ordinary mortals seem to have a better

Brazil's progressive centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff has come to an awful end. On May 12, 2016 Brazil's Senate

The name suddenly made me stop reading the lead story of DS's May 18 issue. Shamim Reza Rubel. He was an IUB student

It's nice to catch glimpses of human sublimity slipping through the cracks of hate and bloodshed. This is not to suggest that news of death and killings and accidents and wars are not important, but only to remind oneself that the news is selective and often parochial.

It is said that foreign policies should not be dictated by the heart but by the head. And I believe that that precept must always predominate our foreign policy formulation.

It will perhaps be beyond the imagination of a couple today that the year-old baby they are cuddling so fondly as their keeps-forever heart and soul...