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Editorial

International Mother Language Day: Some Reflections

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Nasir Uddin :Every year we observe 21st February as international mother tongue day. Our pride knew no bounds when...

Non-Surgical treatment of diabetic related infection

Bobby Ramakant :Nearly 25% of people with diabetes face diabetic foot related complications in their lifetime. "People with diabetes can develop many different foot...

Of gender preferences

Asha Iyer Kumar :A friend recently triggered an interesting Facebook debate on gender preferences. It isn't that there aren't other weighty issues to debate...

Arsenic content in rice

During my recent visit to India I came across a news item in the front page of the 'Anandabazar Patrika' under the caption "Bhater...

Readers’ Forum

Doing good to othersSpeakers from different kinds of forums call for non-communal Bangladesh and say that it was one of the objectives of the...

Brain drain plague

Neeta Lal :There's been much chest-thumping in India over desi boy Satya Nadella being anointed Microsoft's new mogul. The 46-year-old, Hyderabad-born, cricket-loving engineering executive,...

Managing climate instability

Rahul Goswami :Every year, a few million pairs of feet (in cheap flip-flops or trendy sandals, most in branded sports shoes, only a few...

Huge stakes in Thailand

Tom Plate :The stakes in the outcome of the ongoing Thai Crisis are huge and go beyond the strict parameters of the country itself....

Loan scams are caused by politically influenced ones

BANGLADESH Bank on Sunday asked all commercial banks to have prior permission from their board of directors for all loan transactions between a director...

Annoying fence around Parliament building

JATIYA SANGSAD portrays the sovereignty of a nation and people must have at least easy access to its vast green compound, if not inside...

Readers’ Forum

Bt. Brinjal: To eat or not…Our country has quite hurriedly released some varieties of genetically modified Bt. Brinjal even before our neighboring country India...

Swiss slam their door

Eric S. Margolis :DEMOCRACY CAN be so inconvenient. Take Switzerland, the closest thing the world has to a perfect democracy. Switzerland's eight million citizens...

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