Guimaraes double lifts Newcastle to win at Forest

Brazilian Bruno Guimaraes netted twice as Newcastle United held off a spirited comeback from Nottingham Forest to win 3-2 at the City Ground in Saturday's late Premier League game. Both Newcastle's first-half goals, scored by Guimaraes and Fabian Schar, came from set pieces, and the visitors struggled to deal with the

Our forests are our life

We raise the subject again. A concerted programme of deforestation, like the other unwholesome activities gradually taking the shape of the usual in Bangladesh, in the costume of afforestation was last being carried out in the country’s Madhupur regional forest, popularly known as Sal forest. The illegal and blanket felling

Indigenous forest dwellers fear losing ancestral land

When the Bangladesh Forest Department felled Basanti Rema’s banana orchard, Rema, a Garo indigenous forest-dweller of Madhupur Forest, felt she was living a nightmare. Rema, from Pegmari village in Madhupur, Tangail district, had cultivated the banana plants on half an acre in the Madhupur Forest. But the Forest Department claimed that