Vol. 5 Num 221 Wed. January 05, 2005       Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Sports Point-counterpoint National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections StarTech Star Chittagong Others About Us Contact Advertisement Supplements Archives Editorial   Editorial Global networking for disaster management A step long overdue The government's decision to link up the country with the global disaster forecasting system under its Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) has to be lauded.   Editorial In the midst of a gas crisis Tokenism obviously can't do We face gas crisis in winter with routine regularity every year. The pipeline pressure falls with the lowering of temperature. Resultantly, there is a supply shortfall. Post Editorial   Bottom Line How can Bangladesh respond to Indian river-linking proposal? Harun ur Rashid India's plan of inter-linking trans-boundary rivers to create a new "national water grid" seeks to provide increased amount of surface water from trans-boundary rivers to other parts in India.   Matters Around Us It was a politically sound year for South Asia Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury Although a catastrophic earthquake accompanied with devastating Tsunami severely struck several South Asian countries at the fag end of 2004 leading to the postponement of the much-awaited 13th summit   Opinion Biotechnology in agriculture : Not only a trap but also a threat Nazrul Islam A number of learned teachers of various public and private universities in their separate write-ups tried to give a clean-chit to agricultural biotechnology.     Advertisement