Teesta water sharing is key to friendship with Bangladesh
PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina’s much talked about India visit has produced 22 deals and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) including three on defense cooperation but failed...
Editorial
Dilapidated schools in coastal areas no more disasters safe-house
A REPORT carried by The New Nation on Saturday said 95 percent schools and other educational establishments in the coastal areas are too vulnerable and...
Readers’ Forum
Withdraw import duty on milk The price of powdered milk has skyrocketed in the past few months, forcing a good number of people to refrain...
World Bank ignores land grabbing
Linda Flood :Sales of huge land areas of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian government, to foreign investors, have led to starvation and forced displacement. In his...
Make climate planning part of an economy-wide strategy
Geneviève Pons and Imke Lübbeke :In Europe only Sweden, Germany and France currently have 2030 environmental policies in line with the pledges made at the...
Rethinking the cost of conventionally fuelled road transport
Teodora Serafimova. :New studies emerge on a nearly daily basis linking up an ever growing number of illnesses and health risks to air pollution from...
Stockholm attack is to be condemned as ISIS is a dying force
THE atrocious attack carried out by a terrorist the day before yesterday in Stockholm, followed the course of targeting the Nordic region after the shootings...
Awarding power contracts to Indian Cos without bidding
STATE-RUN Power Development Board is set to buy power from two Indian private companies at prices higher than those charged by local companies which won...
Building relation between two equal sovereigns
Mohammad Amjad Hossain :The ongoing visit to India by Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 7 April for 3 days at the invitation of Indian Prime...
Why the West has never got it right with Russia
Thomas Graham :Russia is neither as strong as it seems nor as weak as we think. That aphorism has been attributed to the great French...
Germany`s fear of homeschooling
Alexandra Tompson :Homeschooling is forbidden in Germany. It is one of the only European countries which does not recognise the right of parents to educate...