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  Education and promises of demographic dividend

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on December 15, 2019

  Education empowers people and can change the society. What types of educational improvement should get preference can also be vital in different phases of a...

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  Can we hear the cry of Jumma youth?

  Siam Sarower Jamil | Updated at 12:00am on December 08, 2019

  Describing the current political realities of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Siam Sarower Jamil asks can we hear the cry Jumma youths?

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  Who gets to regulate the internet?

  Anujit Saha | Updated at 12:00am on December 01, 2019

  Neither the state, nor the employees of the tech-giants can be trusted with the responsibility of filtering out hate speeches and bigotry messages on the...

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  Military and business: the case of Pakistan

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on November 24, 2019

  Writer Ayesha Siddiqa coins the term ‘Milbus’ which grossly translates into business involvements of military. She argues from the professional standpoint, the armed forces’ exposure...

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  Where are we heading?

  Biva Hossain | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2019

  In the urban scenario ideas of prosperity and success are installed inside the children from a very early age through parenting and schooling. This has...

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  Manufacturing misrepresentation: from colonial time to Rohingyas

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on November 10, 2019

  In order to dominate and repress a group of people, power quarters have resorted to policies of defaming and ‘othering’ of targeted communities. Since colonial...

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  Abrar murder: can the party brush off its responsibilities?

  A B M Mahmodul Hasan Shiblee | Updated at 12:00am on November 03, 2019

  In order to solve any problem, one must acknowledge the problem first. Are the top leaders of ruling political party ready to take the responsibility...

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  The political economy of Dhaka centrism

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on October 27, 2019

  There are no nearby visible rich agricultural activities but there are several research centres for agricultural research in Khamarbari. It is sheer planned centralisation. And...

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  Discipline and punish: the birth of gonoroom and ragging as microfascism

  Oliur Sun | Updated at 12:00am on October 20, 2019

  The cultivation of desire for domination and exploitation finds itself a land through the ragging culture perpetuated by the activists of fascism in gonoroom or,...

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  Who killed Abrar?

  Nasir Uz Zaman | Updated at 12:00am on October 13, 2019

  Recently a student of BUET is murdered by activists of ruling party in a residential hall of the university that shocked the nation. This cannot...