“A path will emerge. The efforts must continue. There should be no faltering in faith. The results will be there.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a greater connectivity is vital for the development of the two countries and the region.

“It is evident that the tobacco or

"Rohingyas need to be treated as citizens of Burma ... They need to have identity cards and passports that make clear they are as much citizens of Burma as anyone else"

“Bangladesh needs to carry out institutional and policy reforms fast if it wants to go beyond the 6 percent plus growth rate.”

Mangrove forests can reduce the impacts of natural disasters like tsunami by 90 percent, an architecture professor of Buet said yesterday.

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi yesterday said terrorists were attacking schools on realising that quality education opened children's

We are all familiar with the mathematical formulation that 0+0+0= 0. Well, not so, says Prof Yunus.

“It's very sad. … I hope Aung San Suu Kyi, as a Nobel laureate, can do something.”

The prime minister's International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi yesterday underscored the need for family planning and having fewer

Amid the growing menace of human trafficking to some South Asian countries through risky sea routes, the government is preparing a new "work plan" to stop the crime as it may deal a severe blow to Bangladesh's international labour market.

“Two-thirds billboards in the areas under Dhaka North City Corporation are illegal."

"Policemen are on the streets, at every intersection, and patrol the roads, but they failed to protect the girl … the entire nation is ashamed."

The AL MP from Fenchuganj, Sylhet, Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, in a speech on May 9, in his constituency, termed Professor Zafar Iqbal as “One hundred thousand percent idiot”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said steps need to be taken not only against the middlemen but also against those who try to go abroad illegally risking their lives and tarnish the country's image.

"If the law enforcement agencies of the state fail to ensure security of the women, they must be held accountable to us [people]."

“Extremists are very strong in terms of using new technology. Banning them will not be enough; the government must arrest them.”

“The attitude of political parties needs to change for political empowerment of women."

“The law enforcers, to whom we turn for security, have now become a cause for alarm."

"The law enforcement agencies are not sincere at all in arresting the militants or those who are carrying out these terror acts."