Baher Kamal :The prevailing “Take-Make-Dispose” linear economic model consisting of voracious depletion of natural resources in both production and consumption patterns has proved to be one of the world’s main killers due to the huge pollution it causes for air, land and soil, marine and freshwater.Just to have an idea, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly a quarter of all deaths worldwide, amounting to 12.6 million people in 2012, are due to pollution, with at least 8.2...
M A Hossain :When Israelis are preparing to celebrate their 70th Founding Anniversary, the forces of the Jewish state are continuing massacre on the independence aspirant Palestinian masses. The confrontation centering Jerusalem, which began in 1948 seems to be a political deadlock unresolvable in the nearest future. By oppressing the Palestinians, Israel actually is putting it’s own existence into potential threat. If policy makers in Israel think they can uproot the Palestinian freedom movement, they actually are totally wrong! Aspiration...
M A Hossain :When Israelis are preparing to celebrate their 70th Founding Anniversary, the forces of the Jewish state are continuing massacre on the independence aspirant Palestinian masses. The confrontation centering Jerusalem, which began in 1948 seems to be a political deadlock unresolvable in the nearest future. By oppressing the Palestinians, Israel actually is putting it’s own existence into potential threat. If policy makers in Israel think they can uproot the Palestinian freedom movement, they actually are totally wrong! Aspiration...
Dr Ramzy Baroud :The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in the Chinese...
A HIGH Court bench observed that government officials are merely the servants of the republic, and they are not “very important persons” (VIPs). Only the President and the Prime Minister of the country are the VVIPs (very, very important persons) and security issues are involved with regard to their movements, said the Bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader, while hearing a writ petition filed in connection with the death of 13-year-old Titash Ghosh.The big issue...
International Organization for Migration :Health services for people affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh received a boost this week, when IOM, the UN Migration Agency, launched two major new health facilities inside the world’s largest refugee settlement.A new USD 240,000, 33-room in-patient hospital now stands on the site of what was formerly a small medical post constructed from bamboo and tarpaulins. The hospital in Madhurchara, Ukhiya, is the first to offer in-patient services to refugees and members of...
David Cameron, MP :We know that EU rules can all too often thwart firms’ best efforts to grow their business and to create new jobs. The UK has not been shy in pushing for the change that is long overdue and we have led the debate in Europe about reducing the burden on business.That’s why, as part of our long term economic plan, I set up a taskforce of British business leaders in 2013 to look at the kind of...
A.R. Farrukh Ahamed :Bangladesh has a long history of maintaining a routine form of local government even before its inception in 1971. As a sovereign, it has also continued the system with a more legal format under its constitution. However, the legacy of local government, which was mainly inherited from the colonial British rule, still does not have any effective impact on education management system of Bangladesh. Rather, the role of the local government remains a far cry in developing...
Abu Hena :As the families of soldiers killed in the Iraq war have vowed to sue Tony Blair for ‘every penny’, the former British prime minister could face a civil lawsuit over allegations that he abused his power to take the country to war. The Chilcot report published on July 6 concluded that Blair had overstated the case for military intervention in Iraq in March 2003 as there was ‘no imminent threat’ posed by Saddam Hussein and it was not...
A. Mannan :A sizeable quantum of heated exchange, though seems to be rational from each one’s view point, has, of late, been generated, inter-alia, by the EC, various political parties on both side of the divide, elite/civil society, NGO’s, election watchdogs on the key issue to incorporate a system of casting ‘No Vote’ in the upcoming national election. There is as yet no hopeful end in sight.Conflicting arguments are pouring in as it is raining cats and dogs in a...
Rayhan Ahmed Topader :In campaigners, say, EU is being wrongly blamed for Port Talbot situation, as Brexit supporters target affected communities, Former Welsh secretary Lord Hain said the Tories had shown ‘abject incompetence’ over the steel crisis. Campaigners for Britain to remain in the EU have told David Cameron that his government’s handling of the steel crisis has put him in danger of supporter e in/out referendum, as Brexit supporters prepare to target steel communities with hundreds of thousands of...
Wendel Trio :“Heatwave Lucifer is making Europe ‘hot as hell’.” “One of the worst droughts in decades devastates South Europe’s crops.” “Wildfires destroy homes, cause evacuations in Greece, Portugal.”These are just a few examples of this summer’s numerous news headlines about the rise of extreme weather events across the continent. All over Europe the havoc caused by soaring temperatures has featured prominently both in the news and in our everyday conversations.It has been a disastrous summer for Europe and its...