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  Rash of prosecutions

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

  FOR well over a few years, India has been ravaged by a plague of criminal prosecutions for sedition and cognate offences. Sedition has been abolished...

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  Is Biden ending Islamophobia?

  Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on September 12, 2021

  OUR media has been pegging away, at a nagging length, on the ‘terrorists’ in the Taliban cabinet and who are controlled by Pakistan. The information...

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  Indicators being alike

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 12:00am on September 12, 2021

  THE prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, DSEX, increased by about 45 per cent in less than 10 months to reach a historic high...

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  How ‘war on terror’ destabilised Middle East

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 11, 2021

  THERE it is again, that phrase: ‘total failure’. Academics, intellectuals, journalists and politicians are unanimous in their assessment that the west has failed across the...

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  Covid-19 and conflict

  Rafia Zakaria | Updated at 12:00am on September 11, 2021

  TWENTY years ago, on that fateful September day, the world changed forever. Even as the smoke and ash from the cataclysm was still in the...

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  Schools are reopening, what now?

  Abu Muhammad Zakir Hussain | Updated at 12:00am on September 11, 2021

  ABOUT 770 million crore children around the world were not going to school by June 2021. Many were learning virtually or had no schooling at...

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  Can US gain from China’s pain?

  Prabir Purkayastha | Updated at 12:00am on September 10, 2021

  WITH the United States imposing technology sanctions on China, the world’s electronics industry is facing turbulent times. After the sanctions, Huawei has slipped from its...

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  My English department days at Dhaka Univ

  Touhid Shipar Rafiquzzaman | Updated at 12:00am on September 10, 2021

  PERHAPS Charles Dickens was predicting my life at the ‘Oxford of the East’, University of Dhaka, my alma mater. The time I spent there was...

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  Bangladesh loses a true friend

  Rashidul Islam Rubel | Updated at 12:00am on September 10, 2021

  JOSEPH L Galloway, a true friend of Bangladesh, died at the age of 79 at a hospital in Concord, North Carolina on August 18. On...

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  IS-K, Taliban and Africa’s ‘frozen uprising’

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 10, 2021

  ON AUGUST 26, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen US soldiers. The bombings...