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Editorial

Proliferation of private airlines

NEWS reports said air travel is steadily growing over the last couple of years mainly due to higher economic growth in the backdrop...

Making ‘house birth’ safer

Rifat Zafreen :Sokhina is at her advanced stage but it has been decided not to take her to hospital. So midwife is her last...

The N-terrorist spectre

Jonathan Power :US aviation authorities banned the carrying of toothpaste on planes heading to the Sochi Winter Olympics for fear they might contain a...

Nepal’s first family

Sudeshna Sarkar :You can call it a study in contrasts. In India you have people clamouring for an end to the dynastic rule of...

Climate change sceptics!

Unfortunately many scientists are even not ready to believe the threat due to climate change is real? Some rejects the fact while others are...

Cut system loss instead of raising electricity tariffs

The government has decided to increase electricity prices at the bulk and retail levels from March 01, according to a report published in the...

Shrinking arable land and food security

THE country's arable land mass is fast shrinking under a fast moving urbanization process thereby threatening future food security to an exponentially growing population....

Readers’ Forum

Unsporting behaviourWe condemn the unsporting behaviour of some of the players of the Calcutta East Bengal in the semifinals of the IFA Shield Football...

Illusions of consensus

Thomas L. Knapp :Did anyone really not expect this? Reporters Without Borders docks the United States 14 places versus last year - from 32nd...

The pictures overload!

P.G. Bhaskar :There are 'word folks' and 'picture folks'. For some people, words - well-knit and elegantly framed in a sentence - can seem...

Offering quality education at secondary level

Ranjit Podder :From the very beginning of the inception of a school in ancient Greece during the time of Aristotle, the schooling system sprouted...

Political calm is not sure for economy

VARIOUS news reports published in local dailies have come to the conclusion that the government is up for the difficult task of helping the...

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