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Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 08:37 am

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Israel continues strike on Syria military sites Rayo stymie Real’s climb to Liga summit Tk 14,000 set as minimum wage for cold storage workers BNP suggests reforms for public administration overhaul Probes, trials of war crimes cases stalled Coldwave hampers daily life across Bangladesh Dhaka becomes 3rd most polluted city with AQI score of 283 Body of JU student recovered from dormitory 550 individuals’ Tk 15,000cr frozen for investigation Financial Accountability: Critical step towards new future

Opinion

NATO expansion caused Russian invasion

It is the damnedest thing how you are called a Kremlin agent for saying the war was provoked by NATO expansionism and it serves US interests, even when NATO and

On morals and manners

WHAT would be the score that we might garner if there were ever a global scoring system on the sense, appreciation and practice of morality, civility, and manners among Bangladeshis?

Taxation without accountability a volatile mix

THE increase in the price of petrol and diesel has been accompanied by the removal of the QR Code quota system for the purchase of fuel. The elimination of long

Bad faith and blank checks

SOME years ago, as the decline of American media became evident even among those not in the profession, friends and acquaintances began to ask two questions. Do journalists believe what

What’s behind talk of possible plea deal for Assange?

Top US officials are speaking at cross purposes when it comes to Julian Assange. What is really going on? Joe Lauria writes IT WAS a little more than perplexing. US secretary

More than meets the eye

THERE were several military coups in West Africa lately. Mostly in former French colonies, and in many ways ‘neo-colonies’ of France, that do arguably more harm to the Sahel countries

Solution caught in trilateral geopolitics

SINCE August 25, 2017, the Myanmar army began a large-scale violence against the Rohingyas in Rakhine State. Rohingya victims said that mobs joined the crackdown of the military junta, forcing

Mega risks threaten earth

THE Council for the Human Future, which is a dedicated group of intelligent well-informed people, has identified ten Mega Risks to Earth. As it happens, all ten risks are threatening

India: a reluctant BRICS traveller

MK Bhadrakumar says that BRICS is transforming into the most representative community in the world, with an expanding membership that interacts while bypassing western pressure INDIA became a beacon of hope

Headed towards internet censorship

IN JULY, the Jordanian government sparked a wave of controversy when it proposed a so-called cybercrime law, adopted by the parliament later that month with only minor revisions and ratified