A learning experience

NGOs in Bangladesh have made non-formal education a trailblazing success story by employing ingenious teaching methods tailored to the needs of …

Sub-continental drift

The river Ganga shows what South Asian non-cooperation is all about

Solutions are a must

But they may take time to resolve the arsenic crisis

Prioritising people

Overwhelming negative response towards the World Bank-sponsored Flood management plan to be implemented in Bangladesh, saw the government and …

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

Conflict over ganga

Over 2,500-odd kilometers this river meanders, flowing through the lives of over 500 million people, enabling a vast basin spread over Nepal, …

The day the sea raged in

Bangladesh's early warning system had already warned those vulnerable on the coastline and helped limit the usually terrible human toll to a minimum

Treating contaminated water

The problem of natural contamination of groundwater with highly toxic poisons like arsenic and fluoride is here to stay. The million-dollar …

Avoiding harm - how simple a duty is it?

The London High Court judgment on arsenic poisoning cases in Bangladesh explicity clears the way for affected people to claim compensation. …

A fish called hilsa

The population of Bangladesh's national fish is rapidly dwindling in local rivers

Dhaka to give drug policy a free-market dose

Under pressure from transnationals, the Bangladesh government is likely to ease restrictions on producing and importing medicines.

The debate on interlinking rivers in India

India plans to develop its water resources by interlinking its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region through 30 interlinking canal …

Trouble in Tripura

Restrictions on jhum cultivation, large-scale immigration and timber smuggling have made Tripura an environmentally poor state

The national local elections

Bangladesh loses an opportunity to revive its most important local government—upazilla parishad—as competing national parties turn …

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

Tree-fellers turn forest guardians in Bangladesh

Lost in woods

Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh

Deep inside Chittagong's shipbreaking yards

To ensure food for tomorrow

Rice and wheat yields are falling. To check it a new initiative has been taken

A mixed bag

The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? Pinaki Roy on the ban's efficacy

Food crisis grips Bangladesh after flood and cyclone Sidr

Passive neighbour

India remains indifferent as China builds dams on upper reaches of Brahmaputra  

System error

The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …