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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Founder : Barrister Mainul Hosein

Editorial

Drop false names, make FFs list clean

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will verify the list of freedom fighters (FFs) as per a report published in The New Nation on Thursday. It...

Expedite compensation to Rana Plaza victims

THE nation remembered with solemnity the victims of the Rana Plaza tragedy yesterday as the biggest ever industrial disaster had left behind over 1129...

Readers’ Forum

Undemocratic threatsTaking it for granted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is returning to power after a decade, a senior leader of the party...

Stop-gap measure not enough for girl domestic workers

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque(From previous issue)Any benevolent patron-client relationship to the advantage of working girls is a kind gesture that should be rather appreciated...

Learning from Rana Plaza mistakes

Sonya Syafitri and Mohammed Norul Alam Raju :On 24 April 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-storied commercial building, collapsed in Savar. On 13 May, after...

Easy availability of SIM cards and national security

PEOPLE of a Joypurhat village on Tuesday collected over 5,000 mobile SIM cards from a wayside pond which were believed to be dumped by...

Load shedding and record levels of power generation is misleading

AS the summer heat is sweeping over the country and load shedding is back to previous levels, questions have been raised as to why...

Readers’ Forum

500-year-old tree saved in TexasThe Texas' Department of Transportation (TxDOT) wanted to build a new road through the small farming community of Snook which...

Dynastic dominance under challenge

Rahul Singh :With the almost certain victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance in the ongoing Indian general election, will this spell the...

Stop-gap measure not enough for girl domestic workers

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :The analysis of the issue like girl domestic workers (GDW) represents an early stage in our thinking. It is centered...

Readers’ Forum

Attacks on journalistsThe Egyptian authority now backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia arrested four Al-Jajira journalists in September 2013 on charge of working in...

The US failure in Iraq

Andrew J. Bacevich :The government of Iraq last week announced that it had padlocked the infamous prison at Abu Ghraib. The gates are closed....

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