by Oliver Geden BERLIN – The diplomatic effort to forge an international agreement to mitigate climate change is undergoing a fundamental shift. The top-down approach that has guided the effort since 1992 is slowly being replaced by a bottom-up model.…
Prime Minister’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury today called for increasing participation of women in policymaking activities of the government to raise their empowerment.”The dignity of women in a society reveals what progress the society has achieved. In this regard,…
Pakistani rights activist Asma Jahangir came down hard on her government for demonstrating disproportionately high passion” against the execution of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed much more than those being hanged by military courts or Pakistanis executed…
By Kartikeya V. Sarabhai Ahmedabad, India, Dec 2014 (IPS) – Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) brings together concerns about the environment, economic development and social aspects. Since 1972, when the first U.N. Conference on the Human Environment was held in…
The country witnessed an unprecedented election in its history and through there is a parliament and a cabinet have already been formed. Who has actually benefitted, the AL, the BNP or the masses of the people of this land? People…
Dr. M. S. Haq It is good to know the upper and the lower houses of India have now passed the lokpal bill and the champion of above bill Anna Chacha (Mr. Anna Hazare) has broken his latest round of…
By William B Milam Bangladesh is in crisis mode again. Every five years, as predictable as its annual monsoon, but not nearly as monotonous, comes the quinqennial political crisis. These occur because the Constitution mandates a general election every five…
by Erin Lyon
The newspaper headline “Hasina seeks vote to finish development tasks” has drawn my attention. Can I ask a simple question to her? What the incumbent government has done so far development in Bangladesh?
– Tarek Osman
Dr. M. S. Haq