Editorial

Sohail Ashraf :Palestinian radical group Hamas’ olive branch offered to its rival Fatah and the subsequent bilateral talks in Cairo signal a milestone in Middle...

WATERLOGGING has long been an inevitable part of our urban scenario that causes immense suffering to the city dwellers almost all the year round. After...

DESPERATE living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh since late August, says UNICEF. These children...

Anuradha Mittal :A woman shopkeeper is standing on a plastic chair to avoid knee high swirling rainwater mixed with sewage. “I work with a women’s...

Tharanga Yakupitiyage :While many often focus on wealth disparities, economic inequality is often a symptom and cause of other inequalities including women’s access to sexual...

Another Brazil-Germany thrill :The football world will watch another thrilling Brazil-Germany encounter, however, not in the World Cup Football, but in the U-17 World Cup...

GOVERNMENT and aid agencies have provided emergency relief for flood victims but not sufficient to settle flood victims as per media reports quoting Center for...

COOPERATIVE Societies and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) companies as they operate without exclusive government monitoring are grabbing money of poor innocent people without serious accountability. Over...

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :As the United Nations’ Second Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017) comes to an end, more self-congratulation is...

The UNESCO Envoy The UNESCO recently made Jordanian Princess Sumaya a UNESCO Special ‘Envoy for Science for Peace’ (2017-2019). This appointment has been given to...

Patrice Caine :During the height of summer, an open letter to the United Nations warning of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, signed by Tesla CEO...

Dr. Joseph Gerson :There is much to celebrate in the Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s decision to award this year’s prize to the International Campaign to...