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  Jimmy Carter chastises Trump

  by Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on May 19, 2019

  YOU may not have noticed it, but America’s war with Iran started some days ago and may not be going too well for the world’s...

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  Saving rice landraces, ecotypes, ecosystems

  by Mohammed Ataur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on May 19, 2019

  THERE were thousands of varieties of rice, the most important grain crop in Bangladesh, but more than 5,000 local rice varieties have become extinct in...

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  A well-deserved win of Tigers in Dublin tri-series

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 19, 2019

  THE Tigers won what they needed in the final of the tri-series in Dublin on Friday, with a crushing five-wicket win over West Indies. They...

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  Govt must buy paddy directly from farmers

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 19, 2019

  BORO farmers incur losses as middlemen continue to control the procurement process. Government intervention in setting the price of 40 kilograms of boro paddy at...

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  The most extensive classified leak in history

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 18, 2019

  The ‘Iraq War Logs’ disgorged an unprecedented profusion of documents, military reports and videos, writes Patrick Lawrence FOR WikiLeaks, 2010 was an exceptionally eventful year....

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  Pakistan: cauldron to inferno

  by FS Aijazuddin | Updated at 12:00am on May 18, 2019

  A PENCHANT for masochism should be included in the job description of every governor State Bank of Pakistan. Too many recent incumbents have seen their...

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  Narendra Modi: India’s divider in chief

  by M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on May 18, 2019

  TIME magazine’s May 20 international issue has given the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi its prestigious cover. He was on Time’s cover in 2015 that...

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  WASA decentralisation alone won’t bring accountability

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 18, 2019

  THE supply water agency’s failure to provide safe water, especially in Dhaka, has become a major cause of public suffering. In October 2018, a World...

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  Laws, their enforcement too lenient to ensure safe food

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 18, 2019

  LENIENT punitive measures, an endemic culture of impunity which is born out of legal leniency, food business and lack of consumer awareness are said to...

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  Is there a way out of US-Turkey deadlock?

  by Martin Berger | Updated at 12:00am on May 17, 2019

  WASHINGTON’S overt aggressive behaviour on the international stage provoked by its desire to impose its own vision of the way that the Middle East must...