Editorial

Bobby Ramakant :Nearly 25% of people with diabetes face diabetic foot related complications in their lifetime. “People with diabetes can develop many different foot problems....

Asha Iyer Kumar :A friend recently triggered an interesting Facebook debate on gender preferences. It isn’t that there aren’t other weighty issues to debate over...

During my recent visit to India I came across a news item in the front page of the ‘Anandabazar Patrika’ under the caption “Bhater Patei...

Doing good to others Speakers from different kinds of forums call for non-communal Bangladesh and say that it was one of the objectives of the...

Neeta Lal :There’s been much chest-thumping in India over desi boy Satya Nadella being anointed Microsoft’s new mogul. The 46-year-old, Hyderabad-born, cricket-loving engineering executive, who...

Rahul Goswami :Every year, a few million pairs of feet (in cheap flip-flops or trendy sandals, most in branded sports shoes, only a few bare)...

Tom Plate :The stakes in the outcome of the ongoing Thai Crisis are huge and go beyond the strict parameters of the country itself. Geopolitically,...

BANGLADESH Bank on Sunday asked all commercial banks to have prior permission from their board of directors for all loan transactions between a director or...

JATIYA SANGSAD portrays the sovereignty of a nation and people must have at least easy access to its vast green compound, if not inside the...

THE Bay of Bengal has become a sanctuary of pirates who are regularly creating terrors, robbing fishermen and kidnapping them for ransom and often killing...

Bt. Brinjal: To eat or not… Our country has quite hurriedly released some varieties of genetically modified Bt. Brinjal even before our neighboring country India...

Eric S. Margolis :DEMOCRACY CAN be so inconvenient. Take Switzerland, the closest thing the world has to a perfect democracy. Switzerland’s eight million citizens vote...