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  Govt must wake up to workers’ woes

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019

  THE detention of at least 2,000 undocumented Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, in a crackdown by its immigration department on foreign workers staying their illegally, is...

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  Cycle of impunity must end

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019

  NUSRAT Jahan Rafi, the 18-year-old Alim examinee who was set ablaze on the terrace of the madrassah she studied and had sustained 80 per cent...

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  How many times must Assange be proven right?

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 27, 2019

  The espionage charges against Assange bear out what he has been saying and should open ears to what he has also said about the non-Russian...

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  Modi won. Has India?

  by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi | Updated at 12:00am on May 27, 2019

  MODI’S repeat landslide victory has taken India by storm and the world by surprise. It is not a good omen for India and its neighbourhood,...

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  The symphony of our times

  Dr Mizanur Rahman Shelley | Updated at 12:00am on May 27, 2019

  THE administrative structure of the independent and sovereign Bangladesh was a continuation of the system as obtained in the British Indian times until 1947. The...

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  NDA’s landslide victory and Bangladesh

  by M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on May 27, 2019

  THE assessment of some of our foreign policy experts about the landslide victory of India’s National Democratic Alliance in the 2019 elections was interesting but...

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  Urban development must improve living standard

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 27, 2019

  DHAKA city makes the headlines for all wrong reasons. In 2018, the annual global survey of Economist Intelligence Unit listed Dhaka as the second least...

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  Govt must stop non-prescription sales of antibiotics

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 27, 2019

  THE Directorate General of Drug Administration’s negligence towards, or perhaps reluctance at, stopping the sales of antibiotics without prescriptions written by registered physicians is worrying....

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  No easy solutions for the Congress

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2019

  Its defeat now is far more consequential than it was in 2014; and it does not have the luxury of time, writes Zoya Hasan WHEN...

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  Conscience and importance of moral education

  by Amir Mohammad Sayem | Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2019

  CONSCIENCE is, of course, very important in the contemporary world, which is threateningly marked by inadequately justified wars, militant attacks and other forms of crimes....