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  Strategies and their implications

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  TWO strategies are followed globally to control Covid-19. Lockdown and other restrictions are one of the two implemented universally and the natural herd immunity along with other measures touted in Sweden. Some developing...

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  Indiscriminate sand extraction must stop

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  INDISCRIMINATE sand lifting and soil cutting along most of the rivers made the headlines many times in the past, but the practice has continued, destroying the natural flow of water and the livelihood of hundreds of...

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  DSA thwarting freedom of expression warrants its repeal

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  AT LEAST 433 people having been imprisoned under the Digital Security Act 2018, a law that contains vague provisions granting authorities extensive powers to police the online space, as of July 2021, as it...

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  Islamophobia and Europe’s demographic shifts

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 27, 2021

  EUROPE’S identity crisis is not confined to the ceaseless squabbles by Europeans over the European Union, Brexit or football. It goes much deeper, reaching sensitive and dangerous territory, including that...

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  What next to export subsidies, at LDC graduation?

  Tashzid Reza | Updated at 12:00am on July 27, 2021

  BANGLADESH government is supporting export sectors through cash incentive/export subsidies based on realised export proceeds. Presently, around 38 items including five sub-sectors of textile goods are enjoying cash...

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  Cyberespionage

  Usama Khilji | Updated at 12:00am on July 27, 2021

  SURVEILANCE technology is rightfully under debate again, after news of journalists, opposition leaders, activists and leaders of foreign countries including prime minister Imran Khan being targeted by the Indian government has...

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  US regime change echoes in the Caribbean

  Vijay Prashad | Updated at 12:00am on July 27, 2021

  IN 1963, the Trinidadian writer CLR James released a second edition of his classic 1938 study of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution...

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  Undelivered promises keep the road regime unsafe

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 27, 2021

  It comes as highly worrying that the government agencies, tasked to discipline the road regime, and other stakeholders have failed to deliver on their promises to put an end to the road chaos that takes a heavy toll...