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  The problem of combination

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on February 21, 2020

  IT HAS almost been a decade since we started hearing of a combined admission test, centrally managed, which relevant authorities have at times called either...

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  Harping on the right string, but the wrong way

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on January 26, 2019

  THE primary and mass education ministry, too, made the headlines in January 15–16, as other ministries did around the same time, after the cabinet of...

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  No scope for questioning laws constitutes a crisis

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 01:59am on November 29, 2018

  LAWS govern people. Laws govern society that people live in. Laws govern the country that society is part of....

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  Editors take to the streets

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on October 17, 2018

  EDITORS of more than a dozen daily newspapers stood, lining along the footpath, in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday....

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  The defeat of state managers in road regime

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on August 03, 2018

  CHINESE premier Zhao Ziyang, in his memoir Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang, based on a series of about 30...

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  About half an hour on a U-loop

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on August 01, 2018

  IT WAS 9:30pm on Saturday. The U-loop at the Badda end of Hatirjheel had just been opened....

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  The othering that italic type makes

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on July 01, 2018

  HOUSE style is essential for publishing houses, whether they produce books or newspapers, print or online. Sets of guidelines on rules of usage in typography,...

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  A teacher who turns us from darkness to light

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on June 23, 2018

  I DID not see Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury, or SIC as his colleagues and students call him, at the English Department Alumni Society reunion at...

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  Results overshadow competences

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on May 20, 2018

  THE results of secondary public examinations, Secondary School Certificate and other equivalent examinations in the vocational and madrassah streams, have been out, having the pass...

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  Follies in national keyboard layout remodelling

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on May 10, 2018

  AFEW fringe online media outlets published a report on March 25 on the modernisation of, or update on, the national keyboard that the Bangladesh Computer...