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Indian Polls – 2014 The 16th Lok Sabha election will be held in 36 states and autonomous regions’ 930 thousand polling stations (April 7-May 12)...
Editorial
A push for change
Asha Iyer Kumar :We humans, by our inherent nature, are a dissatisfied lot. Much of our lives are spent on finding ways to end this...
America’s reality check
Dr Maleeha Lodhi :The crisis over Ukraine has provided a fresh opportunity to President Barack Obama’s domestic detractors to assail him for ‘failing to lead’...
A year after Rana Plaza : What hasn’t changed since the Bangladesh factory collapse
Jason Motlagh :When I met Rajina Aktar in February of last year, her eyes were still red and her memory still fuzzy from the toxic...
Let teachers be teachers and not influenced by dishonest politics
THE police arrested 25 candidates and Chhatra League activists in Lalmonirhat in connection with the leak of question papers of the recruitment test for government...
Speed up adaptation of law on brick kilns
A REPORT in an English daily on Saturday has found out that the new law on brick kilns has failed to speed up the conversion...
Develop agriculture, mitigate food crisis
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. Amir M. Nasrullah :Recently, our think tanks have focused on some hard facts about rural economy being tormented by...
Tributes to Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez
BBC Online :Presidents and fellow writers have been paying tribute to Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez who has died in Mexico aged 87.The...
Two unbeatable records
On December 16, 2013 Bangladesh made world’s largest human flag in which 27117 people took part. Then on March 26, 2014 Bangladesh made another world...
Support rural poor with income generating activities
A good number of day labourers in the remote villages of the Teesta and Dharla river belt areas in Lalmonirhat district are passing hard time...
Stop producing tannery waste mixed poultry feed
DESPITE a High Court verdict on July 11, 2011 to stop the use of toxic tannery waste in producing poultry and fish feed within a...
Improving disaster preparedness
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju :Over the years, the fact was established that preparedness is better option for disaster management and realizing the fact disaster management...