• Surtirtha’s Tagore music programme ends
  • Rayhan wins award in Spain
  • Auto-rickshaw strike
  • Teachers stealing school roof sheets
  • No room to neglect access to safe drinking water
  • Genuine emphasis on science, technology still missing
  • Population vs. resource: living within limit
  • The most successful terrorist of the 20th century?
  • 25 killed as Syrian troops pound rebel strongholds
  • Hillary meets Egypt gens after urging transition
  • HC asks govt to stop use of chemical in foods
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  • Tigers Tour of Europe begins today
  • Beximco Pharma retain Ascent Soccer title
  • Banks disburse 95pc of farm loan target in FY12
  • Banks’ financing to power sector hits pvt sector credit: Muhith
  • PM backs PSSC to groom up students with leadership quality
  • Architect Muzharul Islam laid to rest
  • 2 workers killed in Ansar firing in Kushtia
  • BERC public hearing on PDB price hike proposal today
  • Rain halts life in Ctg again
  • Drug lords Amin Huda, Ahsanul jailed for 79 years
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Population vs. resource: living within limit

Garbage floats in the river Buriganga… The noisome pollution from chemical waste of mills and factories, home waste, medical waste, sewage, dead animals, plastics, and oil has made the Buriganga a dead river. As a result of overexploitation by the population of Dhaka city, the extent of pollution is so extreme that there is no fish or aquatic life in this river.— Sanaul Haque
ON OCTOBER 31, 2011, with the birth of Oishee at 12:01am in Bangladesh, the UNFPA and the government of Bangladesh celebrated the arrival of the seventh billionth global citizen on... Full story

The most successful terrorist of the 20th century?

Yitzhak Shamir, Ehud Olmert
TWO former prime ministers of Israel are in the news these days. They represent two of the many faces of Israel. They also raise a universal question: which is preferable — an honest fanatic or a corrupt pragmatist? Full story


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