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India lands in the Eurasian camp
Salman Rafi Sheikh | Updated at 12:00am on July 06, 2019
It is the US that is unwittingly creating conditions to enable India and China to form a strategic alliance, potentially integrating the emerging Eurasian geopolitics...
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Our immigrant prisons are an atrocity
Lizet Ocampo | Updated at 12:00am on July 06, 2019
OVER the past several weeks, the brutal terror that immigrants face at the hands of our government has come into even sharper focus. As reports...
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Populism and the fear factor
Adrián Rocha | Updated at 12:00am on July 06, 2019
What do political leaders such as Viktor Orban, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, the Kaczyn´ski brothers, Mateusz Morawiecki, Chávez y Maduro, Cristina Kirchner, Evo...
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Govt must save the Sunderbans and save the pride
| Updated at 12:00am on July 06, 2019
THE Sunderbans, the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world which became a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997, has now come to stand being...
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A worrying Bangladesh berth in worst countries for workers
| Updated at 12:00am on July 06, 2019
A GLOBAL rights index that ranked Bangladesh among the 10 worst countries for working people in 2019 has brought as much ignominy on the nation...
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Is democracy a sham?
by Irwin Jerome | Updated at 12:00am on July 05, 2019
A QUESTION oft raised by journalists, writers and social scientists world-wide asks, ‘Is Democracy in the United States, as well as every other country in...
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Fresh anti-Semitism has pinched sciatic nerves
by Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on July 05, 2019
LATELY, a realisation had pained me that I was once fond of British MP Margaret Hodge for her sharpness in grilling the British society’s millionaires...
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Iranians are not our enemies
by Patrick Hiller | Updated at 12:00am on July 05, 2019
‘WE WERE cocked & loaded to retaliate last night’, Donald Trump tweeted about Iran on June 21, showing us just how close we are to...
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Putting the warriors on terror on trial
by Danny Sjursen | Updated at 12:00am on July 05, 2019
It is natural for mankind to set a higher value on courage then timidity, on activity than prudence, on strength than counsel. — Montesquieu, ‘The...
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WASA must make the supply water safe
| Updated at 12:00am on July 05, 2019
A STUDY, carried out by the ICDDR,B, the Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and the microbiology department...