Editorial

Desmond Brown :The remarkable biodiversity of the countries of the Caribbean, already under stress from human impacts like land use, pollution, invasive species, and over-harvesting...

Sir Frank Peters :Were the dreams, hopes, and aspirations of life-loving schoolgirl Bristi Das to become a lawyer, a doctor, or a politician? Perhaps even...

KING ASHOKA in the 3rd Century BC abolished slave trade in his Maurya Empire, the first known dynasty of ancient India, although after about 2300...

THE NATION saw false cases made against Limon dropped last week after he had to suffer injustice for 3 years straight. Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB)...

Tim Fella :As the International Year of Family Farming winds down, a new set of United Nations principles recognizes that in order to promote global...

Alexandra Makaroff :Globally, 1 in 5 girls around the world is denied an education. Plan International’s Because I am a Girl campaign aims to directly...

P. G. Bhaskar :There are chaps who think nothing of calling in the packers and pushing off to another country. There, they quickly settle in...

Improving law & order :Almost every day news of macabre incidents reach us. Dead bodies are being recovered from rivers, ponds, septic tanks, ditches, members...

FORMER Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam has asked the youths of Bangladesh to be the captor of problems and defeat the problems to succeed....

DHAKA University has decided to allow only the freshly passed HSC candidates to sit for admission tests from 2015 academic session. “Aspirants who fail to...

Promoting soccer UNICEF’s goodwill Ambassador Sachin Tendulkar came to Dhaka on Tuesday at the invitation of a former cricket franchise of Bangladesh and returned home...

Mahir Ali :Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), issued an unusually stark warning this week, declaring: “I have never seen a...