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  Supply water agency’s denial only perpetuates crisis

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 13, 2019

  SUPPLY water shortage in the capital has become an undeniable reality for people which has been repeatedly denied relevant authorities. People in the DIT Road...

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  Frontiers with ‘friendly’ India remains violent for Bangladesh

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 13, 2019

  THE death of Bangladeshi civilians at the hands of India’s Border Security Force continues apace. But the high-handedness of the Indian border guards has of...

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  Ireland’s history of resistance

  by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin | Updated at 12:00am on May 12, 2019

  THIS year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of NATO with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949. Established as...

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  Authoritarian leaders don’t easily accept defeat

  by Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on May 12, 2019

  IF NUMBERS go against him, will Narendra Modi accept defeat? Sounds like an absurd question but it worried me after I read the sub-headline on...

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  An alarm bell must be rung

  by Gazi Mizanur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on May 12, 2019

  REPORTS published in a Bangla langauge daily newspaper in May 1–9 show that in these nine days, 41 people were killed by motorised vehicles plying...

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  Alarming rise of civilian deaths in war on terror

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

  New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from US operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of US denial about the...

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  Govt must protect rights of religious, national minorities

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

  ALLEGATIONS of an increased number of attacks on religious minorities, as the Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Unity Council levelled on Friday, especially in the...

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  Issues of internal displacement must be addressed

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

  AN INCREASED rate of internal displacement is the sign uneven growth and development. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in a report released in Geneva says...

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  The people are united, the factions are not

  by Ramzy Baroud | Updated at 12:00am on May 11, 2019

  THE International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul in April 27–29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalists, activists and students from Turkey...

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  ‘Univs should be above partisan interference’

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 11, 2019

  Universities should be kept above partisan interference so that they can create an environment conducive to free thinking, the freedom of opinion and quality higher...