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  Engaging with extremism

  by Jill Richardson | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  IN MY research, I repeatedly hear the same refrain: ‘If people knew what I knew, they would believe what I believe.’ Followed by: ‘We need...

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  Herd immunity and some other epidemiological issues

  by Abu Muhammad Zakir Hussain | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  WE HAVE heard the term ‘herd immunity’ time and again by now. But we still sound confused when we talk about it in reference to...

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  Deplorable non-cooperation of Narayanganj fire factory

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  THE committee investigating the fire at a food processing factory in Narayanganj in all likelihood would face a delay as the factory management has failed...

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  Govt must shun development policies against environment

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  THE High Court in its full verdict on a public interest litigation writ petition that in 2014 challenged the legality of the development of Sonargaon...

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  Contemporary importance of national liberation

  Yanis Iqbal | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  IN TODAY’S world, the principal contradiction is between imperialism and humanity. Giant multinational corporations are fleecing the globe for their own interests, forming international networks of monopoly capital...

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  Will Afghanistan become everybody else’s problem?

  Henry Kamens | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  THE situation in Afghanistan is like the ending of Charlie’s Wilson war. In the endgame there is no saving face and no victory is won. In fact a great vacuum remains, despite 20 years of US and NATO partner...

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  Another summer of needless sufferings

  J Ismael | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  MY FAMILY and I—my wife, our young son, our elders, and the twin baby girls who will be born to us this week—ask the world to hear the conditions of our lives here in Deir el Balah, after 14 years’ captivity in the world’s largest toxic...

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  Targeted and coordinated approach needed

  Muhammad Morshed | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  WHILE Covid-19 at its peak and more than 200 people have been dying every day for over a week now, the re-emergence of dengue virus is certainly not good news. In addition to dengue fever, there is the mosquito-borne...