The war we won and lost
Robert J. Samuelson :We are awash in retrospectives of the “War on Poverty,” launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon B. Johnson. A furious...
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Worries from Japan
Tom Plate :Try it, you might like it: A sense of proportion. Avoid the extreme cry of apocalypse now – or at least, of apocalypse...
Killing two birds with one stone
Jonathan Power :Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine who lived 460-357 BC, concluded that diseases were naturally caused and were cured by natural remedies. Opium,...
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Indiscipline on bus routesOne of the main problems of Dhaka, a city of over one crore population, is inadequate transports and indiscipline on roads. In...
Money laundering under the cover of machinery imports
SUDDENLY the import bills for December last increased by 20.05 percent ahead of the January 5 national elections compared with a 2.30 percent growth in...
Stop political killings, else the nation may suffer from further chaos
A NEWS item in an English daily on Monday reported a sudden rise in political killings identifying at least 24 persons who were killed in...
Muktijoddha upset Sheikh Russel 2-1
Muktijddha Sangsad KC beat defending champions Sheikh Russel KC by 2-1 goals in a key match of the Bangladesh Premier Football League at the Bangabandhu...
UCB ticket sponsor of Bangladesh-Lanka series
United Commercial Bank (UCB) is the ticket sponsor of the upcoming Bangladesh-Sri Lanka two-Test series, two-Twenty20 Cricket series and three-ODI series.Interested cricket lovers can buy...
