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Editorial

Dead chicken meat at city restaurants

A RECENT news report in The New Nation said a syndicate is supplying dead chickens to city hotels, restaurants and fast food shops for...

Readers’ Forum

Upholding moral standardWe congratulate Uganda government for banning gay marriage, and making law with provision of punishment for violation of the ordinance. The Kampala...

Where Ukraine could explode

Frida Ghitis :On Friday, armed men in military fatigues marched into the principal airport in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine's most contentious region, Crimea....

Unlawful deprivation of life

Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the Awami League (AL) to victory in the 2008 parliamentary elections, which international and...

Pavements must be for the pedestrians

IGNORING traffic rules and the High Court directives, motorcyclists in Dhaka city ride their bikes on the pavements, endangering the lives of the pedestrians....

Revised ADP be practical

'FINANCE ministry proposed, but the planning ministry opposed' - a row continues between the two ministries over fixing revised annual development programme (ADP) of...

Need for global responses to sea warming

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Z.R.M. Abdullah Kaiser :A host of global warming skeptics in the political community debated 'all or some of the...

When the law causes injustice

Sabria Chowdhury Balland :Laws are supposed to solve problems, not create them. Laws are supposed to provide clarity and objectivity, not create ambiguous uncertainties...

Is future of bitcoin in doubt?

Thomas L. Knapp :Sane news coverage of Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox's collapse would look something like this:"Wow! The Internet's largest Bitcoin exchange just vanished into...

City transport dwindling

More than one crore of people live in Dhaka city and all of them except a very limited number depend on buses as means...

BD 5th remittance source of India

DESPITE India's so-called regional superpower status and Bangladesh's tiny economic outlook, one may believe it or not but Bangladesh is now the fifth largest...

Time to develop sea-based blue economy

THE Bay of Bengal can emerge as a highly prospective source of the blue economy depending on whether Bangladesh can take full advantage of...

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