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Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Editorial

The state of the disunion

Mark Hendrickson :Americans are deeply divided in 2014, suggesting that this year's elections will be another bitter clash. One major fault line that divides...

Stakes too high for East Asia to risk war

Robert A. Manning :It is fashionable these days to compare current tensions in East Asia to Europe on the eve of WWI in 1914....

We remember the Language Martyrs

AMOR Ekushey is being observed today in due solemnity to remember the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement and with elaborate socio-cultural festivities in...

Govt can’t ignore responsibility

THE number of premature death of expatriate workers in their host countries has shot up as per news reports published on Thursday in a...

Readers’ Forum

Guarding franchiseWe think from now on January 5, could be observed as the D Day (Death of Democracy) because on that day people of...

American economy needs further boost

Carrie Sheffield :An interesting trending online compares the economies of American states with global economies. There isn't uniform thinking about this, with various maps...

On inequality

Lawrence Summers :INEQUALITY has emerged as a major economic issue in the United States and beyond. Sharp increases in the share of income going...

Nutrition needs of first 1000days

Fahmida Hashem :1000 days- number of the days to save the child's future & too rich the deadline in MDG's. In the first 1ooo...

LNG import and politics in gas fields leasing

A NEWS report in a national daily on Wednesday said that the government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of...

Govt must buy potato to save marginal farmers

SURPLUS potato production this year has created a new market crisis forcing farmers to sell the produce at throw away prices to incur heavy...

Readers’ Forum

Medical negligenceEvery day we hear of deaths in road accidents. It does not surprise us. The other day, seven children were killed in the...

Hegemony or survival ?

Alan Furth :Speaking at the United Nations in 2006, Hugo Chávez excoriated ex- US President George W. Bush as "the devil." Chávez waved a...

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