Of humanitarian imperialism
Jean Bricmont :It started as a reaction to the attitude of the Left during the 1999 Kosovo war, which was largely accepted on humanitarian grounds...
Editorial
Refugee crisis in Brussels is deteriorating rapidly
Elke Zander and Anja Werner :We are expressing our concern over the untenable situation of refugees in Belgium, and to urgently call on the Belgian...
Unfolding creativity of the children
Masum Billah :It is our common observation and experience that children like to play with the pictures, picture books and sometimes we see them talk...
Promises to be kept to offset climate impacts
NEGOTIATORS in Paris are to present their final draft text for a deal on limiting climate change after working hard to thrash out remaining details...
Freeing railways` land from grabbers
A VERNACULAR daily on Saturday reported that around 4391 acre lands of Bangladesh Railway have been dispossessed by political goons and influentials across the country....
Is open government political theatre for the corrupt?
Anca Matioc :This past summer, I decided it was time to go back to Romania, the country my family fled from 25 years ago. After...
A forgotten national leader
We have forgotten Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, who was the first to say to the then West Pakistan, “Assalamu Alaikum.” It was in 1957...
Health is a right, not a privilege
Dr. Samir Kumar Saha :Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day is being observed across the world, including Bangladesh, on December 12 with a call for health...
Developing blue economy in Asia
Saida Muna Tasneem and Aban Marker Kabraji :The oceans and seas are critical to sustaining life on Earth. Oceans produce more than half the oxygen...
An effective policy support for supershops
AS per a report in a national daily at least 25 super shops have folded their windows in recent years faced by rising cost of...
Helpless people taking law into their hands
THE NEW NATION on Friday reported that eight robbers were lynched to death by a mob when they were stealing rice sacks from a shop...
Election campaign violating code of conducts
A NATIONAL daily reported on Thursday that the candidates of ruling party Awami League and other independent candidates belonging to ruling party but without having...