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  How hollow our development is

  by Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on May 06, 2020

  THE COVID-19 outbreak has shown how hollow our development is. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown Bangladesh, in fact the world too, that the development and...

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  Shrinking space for freedom

  by Monwarul Islam | Updated at 01:27am on March 26, 2020

  WHEN the government acts against people, it becomes people’s duty, patriotic duty that is, to save democracy and the country from the government. The people,...

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  Dengue menace lurks around corner

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on March 13, 2020

  WE APPEAR to be neglecting the dengue menace, which is lurking around the corder, all the while we have been busy getting to know the...

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  Occupational safety in sorry state

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 28, 2020

  BANGLADESH stands in an alarmingly poor position when it comes to occupational safety and health, a significant component of decent work agenda. Disregard for occupational...

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  Economic growth, mismanagement, wrong policies

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 10:34pm on December 15, 2019

  SINCE the first budget of Tk 786 crore placed by the then finance minister of the country Tajuddin Ahmed in 1972, Bangladesh’s economy has swelled...

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  Dreams returned in body bags

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on September 26, 2019

  IN THE first eight months of 2019, Bangladesh has received dead in body bags on an average of 11 migrant workers every day. In each...

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  How liveable and safe Dhaka is

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on September 08, 2019

  THERE might be debates on the ways to measure how safe and liveable a city is, but there are certainly some indicators that are pretty...

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  Development rhetoric and public health

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on August 24, 2019

  WE ARE living in a country and political culture where development rhetoric seems to be a way of washing away and hiding harsh realities that...

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  Hunger, food, political economy

  by Monwarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on August 05, 2019

  LET us imagine a common, but often unnoticed, sight that a penniless and hungry person is roaming about the roads of the capital amidst thousands...

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  Merciless Mayhem screened

  Monwarul Islam | Updated at 11:51pm on July 12, 2019

  Canada-based Bangladeshi journalist-filmmaker Fuad Chowdhury’s investigative documentary Merciless Mayhem, which was screened at National Art Gallery Auditorium to a packed audience, gives a glimpse into...