Editorial

INDIA’S decision to build 16 barrages, one in every 100 kilometres of the Ganges, would ultimately kill the rivers and spell disaster for ecology in...

THOUGH no one dissents, but it becomes too hard for the policy makers to design a model for the development or growth perspective of rural...

WHILE the capital of Bangladesh has gone down to the penultimate position in the liveable city index for the last five years for unplanned urbanisation,...

Realistic attention Mr. Norendra Modi said after he was sworn-in as the Prime Minister of India that the Indians were in need of toilets more...

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...