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Editorial

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...

Tech metamorphosis

P.G. Bhaskar :My father is 88. And he is peeved. ?He is convinced that the world has gone nuts. He is bemused when he...

The Presidential shrinkage

Jonah Goldberg :Of all the time-honored failings for which we criticize sitting presidents - by "we" I mean pundits, academics and other members of...

Political involvement creating chaos in city transportation

A RECENT report in a Bengali Daily disclosed the presence of an axis of evil which dominates the city transport sector. It said quite...

Give protection to coastal fishermen

THE Bay of Bengal has become a sanctuary of pirates who are regularly creating terrors, robbing fishermen and kidnapping them for ransom and often...

Readers’ Forum

Well done Dhanmandi ClubIt is unfortunate that Sheikh Jamal Dhanmandi Club lost to Calcutta Mohammedan Sporting Club in the IFA Shield Final on Saturday...

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