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Pakistan-India trajectory
by Touqir Hussain | Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2019
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has been re-elected. So what next for Pakistan-India relations? Will the neighbours start talking again? Certainly. But will their dialogue amount...
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A sociotechnical approach for transport system redesign
by Shahnewaz Hasanat-E-Rabbi | Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2019
The recent tragic incident of Abrar, who was run over by a bus near the Basundhara Residential Area in Dhaka, has raised the some questions...
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Chemical ripening of mangoes must stop early
| Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2019
THE practice of ripening fruit with chemicals, instead of being stopped, seems to have worked out its way insidiously to take an unassailable stand. Chemically...
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Dhaka must step up to the plate in Rohingya repatriation
| Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2019
DHAKA keeps requesting strong political support from India, which is also a next-door neighbour, and China in resolving the crisis of the Rohingyas now sheltered...
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The Bald Soprano
by Mohammad Khabir Uddin | Updated at 12:00am on May 25, 2019
THIS anti-play (anti-pièce) The Bald Soprano translated from the French La Cantatrice Chauve is created by such a literary taskmaster as Eugène Ionesco who, breaking...
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They also serve who only stand and wait
by Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on May 25, 2019
INDIA’S 187 million Muslims deserve a round of applause for the diligent docility with which they have allowed themselves to be the ‘other’ against which...
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India elections: an intoxicating verdict
| Updated at 12:00am on May 25, 2019
It has produced coherence in our governing arrangements; yet it is cause for democratic unease and concern, writes Harish Khare A GENERAL election is essentially...
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Bilateral agreements on worker migration must
| Updated at 12:00am on May 25, 2019
AN AWARD-WINNING book by a Bangladeshi man, Md Sharif Uddin, shining light on the lives of labourers who have gone in their thousands from poorer...
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Food Safety Authority’s indolence about food safety
| Updated at 12:00am on May 25, 2019
The High Court Division’s summoning the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority chair asking him to explain to the court on June 16 his failure to withdraw...
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Now, the Swedish arrest warrant for Assange
| Updated at 12:00am on May 24, 2019
Craig Murray spots the latest phase of judicial and media bias against the publisher of WikiLeaks IN SWEDEN, prosecutors have applied to the Swedish courts...