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Friday, March 7, 2025
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Editorial

Inflationary threats on the rise

BANGLADESH Bank (BB) has voiced concerns over the higher inflationary trends in the recent past. According to a news report published on Monday, the...

Open dumpsters on city roads: Sack the incompetent ones

HUNDREDS of tonnes of solid wastes are left scattered and uncollected by the two Dhaka City Corporations on roads and lanes on a daily...

The IMF needs a reset

Robert h. Wade and Jakob Vestergaardfeb :For all the criticism that has been directed at it over the decades, the International Monetary Fund provides...

South-East Asian women traders

Rahul Goswami :They were Annam and Tonkin, the kingdom of Lan Xang (or Pathet Lao, modern Laos) and the kingdom of the Sukhothai...

Saving women from common cancer

Shobha Shukla :Worldwide, a woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes, taking the annual toll to 275,000. The disease is preventable, and yet...

Readers’ Forum

Restore edu-friendly environmentArmed clashes among students, armed cadres' attacks on students' peaceful demonstrations, and casualties do not surprise us nowadays. Researches have assigned several...

Readers’ Forum

It was a wrong judgmentI am feeling embarrassed and deeply ashamed for writing the letter thanking Jatiya Party Chairman, Hussein Muhammed Ershad which was...

Gender discrimination

Omaira Gill :Recently there was a disturbing expose in one of the UK's major newspapers. Reporters had trawled through the data of the 2011...

Eurozone must maintain reform momentum

Andreas Utermann :Should we share José Manuel Barroso's confidence that the eurozone will put the worst behind it this year? Certainly, the success of...

What’s wrong in Ukraine?

Jonathan Power : The Western Press doesn't understand Ukraine. That is clear after weeks of reporting the demonstrations. We are given the absolutely minimal...

When govt sees itself as all powerful judges have to be strong

A NEWS report on Tuesday said a Division Bench of the High Court Division on Monday declined to hear an appeal on a money...

Protect Buriganga from being a dumping ground for wastes

THE river Buriganga is dying due to a lack of proper protective measures by the authorities concerned. News reports have it that 62 types...

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