The future of Bengal Delta
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Big Picture
Is a global goal on adaptation possible?
29 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Can we make lockdown work this time around?
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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It’s time to talk about cotton
27 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Managing environmental resources for green growth in Bangladesh
27 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Why can’t they get their fair share in our budget?
26 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Have we done enough to address the problem of drug abuse?
25 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Street violence and gang culture 2.0
25 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Fighting the Delta variant: Do we have a plan?
22 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Apparel industry needs a clearer strategy for donor funding
20 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Is it time to rethink our Pak-Turkey policy?
It is said that foreign policies should not be dictated by the heart but by the head. And I believe that that precept must always predominate our foreign policy formulation.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The devices not yet recovered, none held in one month
Brass levers of the 192 insecticide sprayers that went missing from a government-run hospital in Bhaluka upazila under the district are yet to be recovered, nearly a month ago into the discovery of the incident.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Thousands at health risk as rock crushers pollute air
A staggering 300 rock crushing machines are operating round the clock in Dimla upazila under the district, putting around 50
17 May 2016, 18:00 PM
In a relationship
It will perhaps be beyond the imagination of a couple today that the year-old baby they are cuddling so fondly as their keeps-forever heart and soul...
16 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Bumper litchi yield delights growers in Lalmonirhat
Litchi cultivation has brought smiles to a good number of farmers at many villages in the district, with a bumper yield of the juicy
15 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The way to show respect
When all the paraphernalia linked with power and status fail to get lowly commoners to show respect – say they forget to salam or shower you with petals when you enter the vicinity of the primary school you are to visit – there is only one thing to do.
15 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Turkey's democracy on trial
The recent political developments in Turkey has not come as a surprise. On May 5, 2016, the popular Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced that he will resign following serious rifts with the president.
14 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Tangail villages set laudable example of organic farming
The whole country is now focused on growing more and more vegetables. There are some specific regions for cultivating vegetables.
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Building occupies canal land in Jhalakathi
In Jhalakathi's Kathalia Bazar, about 250 metres from Kathalia upazila administrative building, construction of a modern building is
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Poor buyers deprived as OMS rice, flour go to black market
Most of the rice and ata (coarse flour) allocated for the government's Open Market Sale (OMS) programme in the district are finding way
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Justice brings solace to martyrs' families
The execution of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami has brought some solace to the family members of the victims, freedom fighters
11 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Unity over Division
The calm, unyielding yet racially and religiously inclusive campaign of Sadiq Khan has come to symbolise all that is most impressive about London: its diversity.
11 May 2016, 18:00 PM
US, India and Bangladesh extremism
The matter is compounded further when one of the two happens to be the main protagonist of the current global war on terror and whose policy of fighting that war stemmed from the most injudicious, self-centered strategy that has accentuated rather than attenuated extremism, and whose policy has helped extremists spread their tentacles in countries which were not in their radar before the start of the GWOT.
11 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Winds of Change
Every time I travel, I get acutely conscious of my habit of praying in public places. This time, I was stopped by security twice and I ended up joking with a Pakistani man.
10 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Pirojpur's pioneer orchardist
Rome wasn't built in a day: a common adage that Pirojpur orchardist Hangsopoti Mistry, in his 50s, of Tarabuniya
10 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Mindless stone lifting from rivers triggers erosion
Vast tracts of farmland in different villages under Patgram upazila of the district are turning sandy and unfit for
10 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Dinajpur farmers share experiences of better yield with same cost
It was an unique occasion for around one hundred farmer couples as agro-chemical firm Syngenta Bangladesh Ltd organised a 'field
9 May 2016, 18:00 PM
How Pakistan reacted over war criminals’ punishment
Every time an execution of a war criminal took place in Bangladesh, the Pakistan government came up with “questionable comments” on the issue, which is Bangladesh’s internal matter.
9 May 2016, 15:07 PM
Whither professionalism
It happens occasionally, during busy hours particularly, that even before you can get off the rickshaw, mama has begun negotiating with his next customer...
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Shadow of Pathankot still hangs over Delhi and Islamabad
While the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan held talks in Delhi on April 26, 2016, the event went largely unnoticed, except for the media in India and Pakistan.
7 May 2016, 18:00 PM