Record breaking heat threatening human future
YET another global heat record has been beaten. It appears January 2016 – the most abnormally hot month in history, according to NASA – will...
Editorial
Readers` Forum
Woes of women in public buses I was recently travelling by an over-crowded bus in Shantinagar. Despite the nine seats reserved for women, children, and...
Tobacco industry misleads developing countries over regulations
Lyndal Rowlands :Low and middle-income countries have far fewer tobacco regulations than high-income countries and are paying the price – with bigger health and economic...
Make the United Nations even more effective
Sheba Crocker :On January 1, António Guterres of Portugal began his five-year term as UN Secretary-General, replacing Ban Ki-moon. If you followed the Secretary-General race...
Readers` Forum
May God bless President Trump We never thought that Donald Trump will become the President of America but sometimes unthinkable happens. We do not know...
Energising European recovery
Jean-Michel Glachant, Karsten Neuhoff, Michael Grubb and Simon Müller :Energy is a backbone of economic development. The origin of the EU itself lies in the...
American interest comes first always
Donald Trump, President of USA :Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: Thank you.We,...
America for America is not greatness
AS the world watches on, Mr Donald J. Trump as the new US President started rolling his make America great again policy in the very...
Agri Ministry should have done more to check wheat blast
MEDIA report on Saturday said that like previous years, wheat blast has again surfaced early in this season particularly in Meherpur district. It has been...
Envisioning a new global financial system in a decade
Gloria M. Grandolini :Climate change, migration, correspondent banking and cybercrime are putting unprecedented and unforeseen pressures on global financial markets.They aren’t just disrupting the global...
United States must follow rule of law
Warren Blumen :“To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to...
Credit where it`s due
Saira O’ Mallie :The recent report from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) on direct cash transfers – where aid money goes straight to...