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Editorial

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...

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...

Winter floods to dominate UK polls 2015

Matthew D'Ancona :The scale of the floods afflicting southern England since the end of last year is best expressed by the question the disaster...

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