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  Talks between USA and Taliban

  Natalya Zamarayeva | Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2019

  January 2019 saw the conclusion of the first round of talks between the USA and the Taliban, which took place in Qatar. The Afghan Taliban...

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  Caught between two extremisms

  Mohammed Ayoob | Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2019

  Wahhabi influence and Hindu nationalism are responsible for the radicalisation of a small segment of Muslim youth, writes Mohammed Ayoob NEWS reports about occasional acts...

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  Dare to know, have courage to act!

  Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi | Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2019

  Legend has it that in 1972 when the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution his response was that...

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  More needs to be done to protect child rights

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2019

  THE well-being of street children is left largely ignored as government efforts to rehabilitate them somewhat failed to yield the expected outcome with more than...

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  Dhaka Univ authorities must pay for their failures

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2019

  THE University of Dhaka authorities have announced the full schedule of the elections to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union finally after the issue has...

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  Taking on the IMF

  by Sofian Philip Naceur | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2019

  EIGHT years after the Jasmine Revolution that forced the resignation of Tunisia’s ex-president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali following almost four weeks of mass protests, the...

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  Opportunity knocks

  by Antara Singh | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2019

  Multilateral forums such as the Human Rights Council are points of relevance for smaller power states, such as Nepal, in light of our foreign policy...

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  Why Congress can’t win by trying to be more like BJP?

  by Aijaz Zaka Syed | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2019

  THE more things change in India, the more they seem to remain the same. How else would one explain the slapping of draconian National Security...

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  Pretended justice for imprisoned innocent persons

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2019

  When a justice system does not consider miscarriages of justice as a crime, can it ensure justice? When a justice system is reluctant to indemnify...

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  The problem of international law

  by Lawrence Davidson | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2019

  SEVERAL recent events suggest that global warming is not the only thing threatening our future. As if they are running on parallel tracks, some of...