For the protection of the Sunderbans, the work for constructing a power plant at Rampal needs to be halted immediately after taking into due consideration all the reasons for making such a move. Ours is a power-starved country and for meeting development goals we need more power. There is no doubt about…

It is worrying to note that number of taxpayers is not increasing in the country despite rise in its per capita income. A report on this appeared in a…

Sir, On the World Water day on March 22 last  year UNICEF and WHO published a joint study according to which as many as 26 million Bangladeshi people do not have access to safe drinking water. The UN General Assembly has declared water to be a basic human right yet the unfortunate fact is that…