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Thailand losing steam

Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker :Even as demonstrators were spreading across Bangkok, they were losing ground with a constituency whose support they badly need:...

US economy returning to shape

Neil Irwin :The United States is poised for its strongest year of economic growth since the recession began. Signposts for the economy are generally...

Corporal punishment of children is a serious matter

Prof. Murray A. Strauss :It was encouraging to read an article recently by Sir Frank Peters about the ill effects corporal punishment has on...

Plug growing incidents of tax dodging

A NEWS report yesterday said that the tax-payers dodged Tk 3,024 crore in the income tax category alone during the last two financial years...

Small farmers needs low cost credit

SMALL farmers in the country are bearing the brunt of the months long political crisis as they were unable to sell their produce to...

Readers’ Forum

Suchitra Sen dies in seclusionIndian film actress Suchitra Sen died in Calcutta, West Bengal on Friday. She was in her 82 years. Suchitra acted...

Building an earthquake resilient city

Mohammad Simon Rahman :In most cases, despite having the knowledge of a potential disaster, we fail to realise the importance of adopting the necessary...

Democracy and fair elections are ‘inseparable twins’

Barrister Nazir Ahmed :The whole nation was stunned, thundered and surprised having seen the accumulation of mountainous income and wealth of ruling party's Members...

Skepticism over upazila election environment

LEAVING the controversy about the January 5 parliamentary election unresolved, the Election Commission (EC) has taken the new move to hold elections for upazila...

Relocate chemical plants from the old part of the city

CHEMICAL industries still operate in the densely populated old part of the city despite the tragic fire at Nimtali three years ago which had...

Closer business ties with Myanmar

NEWS reports said senior trade officials of Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to raise the two-way trade between the two countries to US$500 million...

Reduce city’s over dependence on underground water

EXPERTS' findings showed that the groundwater level in the city is falling at a rate of 9.21 feet per year creating new threat to...

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