Editorial

THE High Court ordered hospitals and clinics not to hold body of a deceased if his or her family fails to immediately pay the medical...

THE land ministry is facing severe difficulties in managing land management activities because of acute shortage in manpower. As many as 4,250 posts of Class-I...

Awful level of congestion Last Friday, I visited one of my friends in the Dhakeshwari Temple area and stayed there for some time. Then I...

Tim Wainwright :This weekend marks World Toilet Day (November 19)- and the news is disheartening. One in three people are still waiting for a toilet;...

Reading history in right earnest Most of our television channels and a group of male and female singers are very much fond of Indian culture,...

Jana Hainsworth :Despite evidence that economic growth is returning to the continent, years of austerity have pushed more and more people to the margins. Children,...

Kemal Dervis :According to the Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, it is impossible to have full national sovereignty, democracy, and globalisation simultaneously. The concept of a...

Juan Menéndez-Valdés :At the heart of the agenda will be the formal proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights – 20 principles focused on...

MEDIA reports said an increasing number of poultry feed mills using dangerously toxic tannery wastes laced with poisonous chemicals as raw materials remain the biggest...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended transferring of 522 government schoolteachers working at different high schools in the city for 10 to 33 years although...

Real sense of obligation We learned from news that a rail company in Japan has apologised after one of its trains departed 20 seconds early....

Rufus Pollock :Too often we focus on technology and forget the structures of law, ownership and power that technology operates within. Dazzled by the astonishing...