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Editorial

Bailing out the realtors

THE prolonged economic impasse has pushed the country’s realtors to a crisis. The New Nation on Thursday reported that the real estate companies are passing...

Readers’ Forum

Corporal punishment: Expression of suicidal tendencies If children are the future of Bangladesh, why damage them?The question was posed by British long-time foreign friend of...

Wake-up call to the West

John V. Whitbeck :Israel’s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of the current Israeli government, is widely...

One cheer for the climate deal

Kate Galbraith :Historic. Landmark. Game changer. These are the weighty descriptors being used to analyze the climate change deal that the United States and China...

Wild, wonderful and free!

Gran Mincy :Don Blankenship, longtime Chief Executive Officer of coal giant Massey Energy, was indicted November 13 on charges that he consistently violated federal mine...

Be kind to the pets

Recently a cat show was held at National Press Club, Dhaka, organised by Cat Concern, an affiliate of Animal Concern of Bangladesh to express love...

History repeats in US midterm polls

Sabria Chowdhury Balland :Historically, it has been seen that a President’s party rarely does well in the midterm elections, particularly in the President’s second term....

Value of tolerance in society

Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :The contemporary parliamentary democracy in a seemingly hazy political landscape like suffers from the process of depersonalization as intolerance among the...

Smuggling gold in and out

THE legendary love for gold in the Indian market caused its government to raise tariffs on this precious metal in April 2013, hoping to cash...