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  Hindutva’s wave in India

  AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on July 26, 2021

  IT IS not a solitary executive act, a legislative measure or an oratorical performance that matters. What really matters is the wave a leader can create and let loose, a zamane ki hawa (wave of the times). BG Tilak created...

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  Ordeal of ‘abandoned wives’ in UK

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 26, 2021

  SANA Hafeez, 28, from the Pakistan-administered Kashmir, had hardly started the 10th grade when her family arranged her engagement to her British-born cousin Muhammad Bilal Choudhary...

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  A serious threat to public health

  Zubair Khaled Huq | Updated at 12:00am on July 26, 2021

  FOOD adulteration has become a matter of grave concern. The problem is not only ignoring people’s rights to safe food, but also seriously endangering public health with numerous acute and chronic diseases. Our future...

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  Govt must act to save Sunderbans and to retain UN status

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 26, 2021

  BANGLADESH has one more year to meet the conditions that the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO placed on preparing a long-term plan to save the Sunderbans and retain its status as a natural world heritage...

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  Bangladesh must rise up to occasion over spyware use

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 26, 2021

  THE Israeli NSO Group’s Pegasus software — a malware that can access a phone’s contents and remotely access its microphone and camera functions, turning it into a surveillance device — has made the...

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  Big Pharma decide who lives, who dies in global south

  by Sarah Lazare and Maurizio Guerrero | Updated at 12:43am on July 25, 2021

  The chilling effect of the pharmaceutical industry’s veiled threats, write Sarah Lazare and Maurizio Guerrero ON APRIL 24, Elizabeth de Carvalhaes, executive president of the...

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  Pegasus rides again

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:41am on July 25, 2021

  THEY keep insisting they do not do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour,...

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  Changing tides in Taiwan Strait

  by Mohammad Abdur Razzak | Updated at 12:39am on July 25, 2021

  BEFORE the Chinese civil war, China was officially known as the Republic of China. It was then ruled by the Chiang Kai Shek’s Kuomintang government...