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Editorial

Nutrition needs of first 1000days

Fahmida Hashem :1000 days- number of the days to save the child's future & too rich the deadline in MDG's. In the first 1ooo...

LNG import and politics in gas fields leasing

A NEWS report in a national daily on Wednesday said that the government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of...

Govt must buy potato to save marginal farmers

SURPLUS potato production this year has created a new market crisis forcing farmers to sell the produce at throw away prices to incur heavy...

Readers’ Forum

Medical negligenceEvery day we hear of deaths in road accidents. It does not surprise us. The other day, seven children were killed in the...

Hegemony or survival ?

Alan Furth :Speaking at the United Nations in 2006, Hugo Chávez excoriated ex- US President George W. Bush as "the devil." Chávez waved a...

Indian economy to face troubles in coming years

Mamta Badkar :With economic growth at a ten-year low, the rupee down over 12% year-to-date against the dollar, capital outflows, and collapsing corporate profits,...

Making election credible

Barrister Nazir Ahmed :The tenth parliamentary election in Bangladesh was held on 5th January 2014 - but, what kind of election was it? Over...

Upazila polls: Another acid test for EC

THE first phase of upazila parishad elections is going to be held today at 97 upazilas across the country in a highly charged political...

Keep social safetynet program above politics

GROWING allocations for Social Safetynet Program (SSNP) has provoked a new debate at a time when the poverty rate has come down in the...

To help Syria, talk first to Iran and Saudi Arabia

Giandomenico Picco and Gabrielle Rifkind :News that the Assad government is ready to send a minister abroad for talks with the leader of the...

Is the Asean Economic Community too ambitious a concept?

Rahul Goswami :Some time next year, we are told, the countries that form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will form an economic...

Managing human resources

Dr Jamal Khan :(From previous issue)The commission, however, needs to be careful in retaining a sufficient number of personnel with adequate control over the...

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