Editorial

Outbreak of dengue: More effective measures needed While the capital city in particular and the nation in general is grappling with the worst outbreak of dengue fever in epidemic form, with hospitals packed with patients as the disease spreads speedily, round-the-clock panic has kept people on tenterhooks as “severe dengue is a leading cause of […]

The World Bank needs to understand poverty Sharan Burrow THE World Bank claims poverty is decreasing around the world but UN research shows it depends on what you measure. If we are serious about reducing poverty, we need to start by properly identifying it. The World Bank has repeatedly claimed that extreme poverty is on […]

LEAD, PESTICIDES IN MILK Food contamination: Offenders must be punished A M K Chowdhury According to a news report titled “Wage war on food adulteration”dated May 13, 2019, the High Court urged the prime minister to declare a war on food adulteration, and directed the government to immediately remove from the market the 52 food […]

Wretchedly vulnerable victims of brutally frenzied anti-Muslim communal fire and ethnic cleansing without a shred of doubt — accused by the UN of genocide against Rohingya Muslims — the emaciated and famished out of prolonged starvation, all in tattered and soiled clothes, the hapless Rohingya men, women and children were foced to leave their hearth […]

Sheikh Mujib will live in people’s heart Shahabuddin Ahmad THE heinous assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was indisputably the worst political tragedy in the history of Bangladesh.  On 15 August 1975, a group of disgruntled junior army officers staged a coup d’état and attacked his residence with tanks and […]

India’s unilateral Kashmir move unwise, dangerous Adam Garrie FOR a long time Jammu and Kashmir has been a place of strife, inequity, conflict and geopolitical deadlock. In such circumstances any move made to destabilize an already tense situation can uniformly be described as the wrong decision. By revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s relative autonomy and by […]

Kashmiri Muslims: Must fate play cruel tricks on them eternally? Often portrayed as the only inordinately blood-spattered Muslim-majority territory in the world where more than 47,000 people have been killed excepting the disappeared ones, the Indian state of Kashmir and Jammu (K&J) — the 70-year-old flashpoint over which Delhi and Islamabad have fought two wars […]

Ambassador Walther Lichem THE past seventy years since the end of the Second World War have been marked by profound changes in our international system. Relations between states have become more horizontally structured interactions with a rising significance of the common good articulated and pursued by newly-created international programmes and organisations.The international agenda increasingly consists […]

Zero population growth vs. population control Marian Starkey Knowledge is power, but with the caveat that said knowledge is based in fact. Otherwise, it’s misinformation.I appreciate the journalism of IPS. Similarly, I respect and spend much of my time advocating for Americans to demand that the United States support the work of the UN Population […]

Outbreak of Dengue: Need for confronting it sensitively As outbreak of Dengue has by now assumed the form of a dreaded infection rapidly spreading beyond Dhaka city, hospitals swamped with patients are filled to the brim consequent upon which overstrained doctors, nurses and pathologists are facing a very hard time handling the unprecedented deluge of […]