• Nipah kills two more
  • Aranyak celebrates 40th anniv
  • Emon Saha: best music director of the year
  • Yet another RMG factory fire, yet more deaths
  • Bishwajit’s post mortem and apex court’s observation
  • Acid throwing: a heinous crime
  • The barriers to democracy
  • Nature’s capital is the limiting resource
  • On upcoming parliamentary elections
  • Funerals in Egypt’s Port Said after deadly clashes
  • Afghan bomb kills 8 cops, 3 detainees
  • HC declares NSC action in BCB constitution illegal
  • Abahani eye top spot as second leg begins today
  • BB asks banks to bring down interest spread by March
  • Industries lead worst performing ministries
  • Rule of law stressed to stop human rights violation
  • CU students halt train over harassment
  • Ship owners threaten indefinite strike
  • BUET asked to design Padma bridge: PM
  • President urges opposition to talk in, outside JS
  • Subsidy for power sector may reach Tk 8,000cr
  • Workers worried about future
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Nature’s capital is the limiting resource

ONLY in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love, the ‘Great Diaspora of the Human Race’ began ‘more than two millennia ago’ and has spread to more than ‘two thousand colonized planets.’ The once ‘lovely green planet’ Earth is a slum planet barely able to support life where... Full story

On upcoming parliamentary elections

THE prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has declared that, her government will hold the elections to parliament in January 2014 when the five-year term of the tenure of the present government comes to an end. From what she... Full story


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