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  How Palestine’s past is being slowly erased

  Jonathan Cook | Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019

  ISRAEL has controlled East Jerusalem and the walled Old City since the 1967 war in which it also occupied the adjacent West Bank. It has effectively treated them as annexed territory ever...

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  Civil society in relation with the state

  Amir Mohammad Sayem | Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019

  BOTH the state authorities and civil society varyingly function for the well-being of people. The state authorities serve people’s interest by making and implementing laws and policies on various socio-economic, political and...

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  ‘I dream of a place called home’

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019

  I AM a refugee, born to a refugee family. I was granted that status on the day I came into this world. I was not aware of what had happened before then. I did not fight any battle, I did not...

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  How many are not blowing the whistle?

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019

  WHISTLEBLOWER Chelsea Manning is now being slammed with $500 fines for every single day that she remains imprisoned in contempt of court for refusing to testify in a secret grand jury against...

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  Rights of marginalised people must be protected

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019

  THE marginalised minority groups have been deprived of their rights and not been included in development activities of society for decades. Rights activists at a national convention on Thursday asked the government to protect the rights of...

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  A welcome court order for stopping impaired driving

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019

  THE order of the High Court Division for assessing whether eyesight of drivers meets an accepted safety standard, at the time of licensing and while they are in service, to check against impaired driving and for arranging for drug testing to stop drug driving in six months is welcome. This is important as drivers need to have...

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  OBOR initiative: critics and new members

  Nina Lebedeva | Updated at 12:00am on June 21, 2019

  THE second BRF-2019 Summit in Beijing became a landmark event that marked achievements of this infrastructure project, which, in 2016, changed its former name One Belt, One Road to Belt Road Initiative. The word ‘belt’ refers to...

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  Bangladesh: marvel and a success story

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on June 21, 2019

  FOR a long period of time, a beautiful country called Bangladesh has remained one of the world’s impoverished nations and, by a twist of fortunes, today, it has sailed smoothly into an exciting world of prosperity and...

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  Serious concerns over Bt brinjal

  Aniket Aga | Updated at 12:00am on June 21, 2019

  A MONTH ago, Bt brinjal genetically modified (GM) to resist the brinjal fruit and shoot borer (an insect), was found growing illegally in Haryana. This was a different Bt brinjal from the one developed by the...

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  Zero waste: the global plastics crisis

  Graham Peebles | Updated at 12:00am on June 21, 2019

  PLASTIC pollution is everywhere. It litters beaches, clogs up oceans, chokes marine life, is ingested by seabirds that then starve to death, and has even been discovered embedded in Arctic ice. It’s in the air...