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  Forest conservation, reforestation must be policy priority

  | Updated at 12:00am on November 23, 2020

  A COUNTRY should have at least 20 per cent of its land to be forested while in the case of Bangladesh, it is 10 per...

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  After 100 years, it is time Univ of Dhaka came of age

  | Updated at 12:00am on November 23, 2020

  THE University of Dhaka, the oldest and premier seat of higher learning in Bangladesh, will complete a hundred years of its existence in July, yet...

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  The Yemen civil war arms bonanza

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  Mammoth arms sales continue to remain matters of business and politics, with business tending to be the crowing representative, writes Binoy Kampmark ‘MAKING billions from...

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  Get the hell out of Afghanistan

  by Caitlin Johnston | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  These are unforgivable atrocities which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. Nothing can undo them. Nothing can set them right, writes Caitlin Johnston THE...

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  Right to travel

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  IT IS unwise to treat lightly brazen abuses of power to stop citizens from exercising their right to go abroad. The case of Altaf Ahmad...

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  Asad Owaisi enigma after Bihar

  by Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  THE enigma of Asaduddin Owaisi on the rise in recent years has, after he won five seats in the Seemanchal area of Bihar, acquired a...

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  Patient- and worker-friendly hospitals

  by Hasnat M Alamgir | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  DEMAND for healthcare services is growing rapidly in Bangladesh because of an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases among its ageing population. It is, therefore, essential...

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  Unregulated food industry a public health nightmare

  | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  FOOD safety remains still elusive as in almost all steps of food production, safety standards are compromised. There are documented evidences that the food come...

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  Govt must reprogramme tax policy to stop corporate abuse

  | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  THE findings of the State of Tax Justice 2020: Tax Justice in the Time of COVID-19 that the Tax Justice Network, a London-based global alliance...

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  Re-learning to reject war

  by David Swanson | Updated at 12:00am on November 21, 2020

  CHRIS Lombardi’s fantastic new book is called I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars. It’s a wonderful history of US wars,...