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  Many a failure makes a mess of canal conservation

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 08, 2018

  THERE has been no exact number of canals that once flowed through the Dhaka city....

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  End of the world versus end of the month

  Danica Jorden | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  After the COP21 in Paris, Macron wanted to become the world leader on Climate Change. But what could seem accurate policy measures not always are...

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  Yemen: 85,000. Dead. Kids.

  Charles Pierson | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  IN YEMEN, a place where things couldn’t get worse, things have gotten worse. Eighty-five thousand children under the age of five may have died during...

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  Noam at 90

  Mahir Ali | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  Chomsky’s aim has been not just to interpret the world but to change it, writes Mahir Ali ‘AT 90, he remains a stealth dagger through...

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  Future challenges in seaborne trade

  Md Rezaul Karim | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  ENCOURAGING seaborne trade requires improvement in port facilities and other logistics support. In 2017–18, goods worth $51.53 billion were imported in Bangladesh while goods worth...

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  Actions to mainstream Dalits called for

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  The demand of the Dalit community for immediate steps to end all kinds of discrimination against them is justifiable. Their leaders, as New Age reported...

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  Regulators must use instruments to stem loan default growth

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  THE unwillingness, if not inability, of the central bank to use regulatory instruments to arrest the increase of loans in default has pushed the amount,...

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  Yemen, poisoned water and a green new deal

  David Swanson | Updated at 12:00am on December 06, 2018

  WHILE UN figures suggest that it would take 1 per cent of US military spending to provide the world with clean drinking water, the United...

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  Finding a win-win solution to break Lanka deadlock

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on December 06, 2018

  IN THE aftermath of the Supreme Court decision to issue a stay order on the president’s dissolution of parliament, the constitutional are nearer to being...

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  An imperishable friend of Bangladesh

  HM Babu | Updated at 12:00am on December 06, 2018

  A GREAT Dutchman fought with us in Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. He is WAS Ouderland, born on December 6, 1917 in Amsterdam in the...