Editorial

THE country’s arable land mass is fast shrinking under a fast moving urbanization process thereby threatening future food security to an exponentially growing population. There...

Rifat Zafreen : Sokhina is at her advanced stage but it has been decided not to take her to hospital. So midwife is her last...

Unsporting behaviour We condemn the unsporting behaviour of some of the players of the Calcutta East Bengal in the semifinals of the IFA Shield Football...

Thomas L. Knapp :Did anyone really not expect this? Reporters Without Borders docks the United States 14 places versus last year – from 32nd to...

P.G. Bhaskar :There are ‘word folks’ and ‘picture folks’. For some people, words – well-knit and elegantly framed in a sentence – can seem magical....

Ranjit Podder :From the very beginning of the inception of a school in ancient Greece during the time of Aristotle, the schooling system sprouted branches...

VARIOUS news reports published in local dailies have come to the conclusion that the government is up for the difficult task of helping the nation...

THE United States has decided to discontinue its training programs and assistance for the Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh citing a gross violation of human...

Drafting foreign policy Turkey and Saudi Arabia are united on the Syrian issue. The governments of these two countries give both diplomatic and material supports...

Rahul Goswami : If you have a nodding acquaintance with conventional Marxist approaches to understand matters that concern land, peasants and what peasants and land...

Omaira Gill :The world is moving all the time. Economies are changing and more and more people are upping sticks to move to more profitable...

Eric S. Margolis :VICTORIA NULAND, the US assistant secretary of state for Europe, used a four-letter word to indicate her feelings about Europe. Nuland was...