THE persistent water crisis and increased salinity in supply water in Chattogram amidst the ongoing heat wave show the failure of the authorities to address an issue that has affected people鈥檚 lives for...
Rice fields began developing cracks as vast landscapes lay parched from about two weeks of intense heat conditions, with farmers battling a severe power crisis in irrigating cropland...
IN THE aftermath of the prolonged conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the aggravating Middle East crisis, where escalating humanitarian crises compound existing tensions, the global landscape has undergone...
The Bangladesh Bank sold $11.67 billion from its foreign exchange reserves to banks in less than 10 months amid a severe dollar crisis faced by the country鈥檚 banks...
WHEN Parakala Prabhakar published his essays in April last year in a book titled The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis, one ignored it on suspicion that as husband of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman he could not but be...
With an energy crisis and record high inflation in the EU鈥檚 rearview mirror, Brussels believes the time has come for the bloc to focus on ensuring sound public finances...
The power shortage doubled to almost 1,000MW on Sunday, compared with the day before, as electricity demand surged amid an unrelenting heatwave sweeping over most of Bangladesh...
LAST September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or 鈥榤edicane.鈥� Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn鈥檛 get hot enough to produce hurricanes...
THE farming of boro rice, the largest rice crop that accounts for 54 per cent of the total rice production, facing an irrigation problem in the north is concerning. Thousands of farmers in northern Rajshahi and Rangpur are reported to be facing...
Import restrictions on luxury items and other policies implemented by the government during the past two years have failed to tackle the dollar shortage and ease the economic crisis.
IT IS many years now since the French, bless them, revolted as Disneyland Paris arose near the previously uninvaded village of Marne-la-Vall茅e-Chessy...