Editorial

We are grief stricken by London Tower Inferno :We are feeling deep shock and sorrow by the incident at the Grenfell Tower in London, the...

Preventing landslide-deaths More than 150 people have been killed in the past two days in the CHT due to the incessant rainfall, including four army...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Even before the term ‘Washington Consensus’ (WC) was popularized, it was already coming under great criticism despite the ‘counter-revolutions’ against ‘development economics’...

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein :Fifty years ago, this was the day I first heard the sound of war. I was three and a half years...

A WEST London community has been left reeling and searching for answers after an “unprecedented” blaze ripped through a tower block, killing at least a...

CAUSED due to intermittent heavy rains the low lying and the hilly parts of the south of the country are feared to experience more flash...

Joseph Chamie :Global food extremes of chronic undernourishment and obesity have brought about a bipolar world of hundreds of millions of underfed and overfed people....

Christoph Benn :Health challenges have important societal and economic consequences, and in today’s interconnected world the consequences for not addressing these challenges can affect us...

Baher Kamal :(From previous issue)More than three billion people rely on fish for critical animal protein, while 300 million people depend on marine fisheries, the...

Fewer playgrounds in Dhaka :According to a recent survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, only 2 percent of children have access to playgrounds in...

ON one hand – barely a week ago, the American President called on Qatar to stop funding ‘terrorism’, it also told other Gulf states to...

THE impending 15 percent VAT on rod will take a huge toll on construction of buildings, particularly in rural areas, and increase the cost of...