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Thu, 23 Jan 2025, 03:58 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

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WTO’s spectacular failure to fight Covid-19

The global body has proven itself unwilling to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry. Here’s what it means for the next crisis, writes Sarah Lazare NEARLY two years ago, in October

Staying out of troubled waters

NUMEROUS countries of the developing south are distancing themselves from the contenders in the war in Ukraine, using the debate on the conflict to underscore their independence and pave the

Time to go on the offensive

THE World Trade Organisation held its 12th Ministerial Meeting in Geneva from June 12 to 15. Little if anything was expected from the meeting except the usual exchanges of conflicting

Workers’ summit exposes cracks in imperial façade

VALENTÍN, the man next to us in line as we made our way across the international border, asked what we had been doing in Tijuana. We had been at the

An argument for deheroising democracies

THIS study explains that the notion of a cult hero is incompatible with democracy as a form of government. Heroes surface in all forms of government and thrive in empires,

Lanka strays far from interim govt promise

Last time the attackers set only the politicians’ houses on fire. Next time they would target affluent and rich families too. They will attack everyone using luxury vehicles and those

Silence of Israeli apartheid

WITHIN the cacophony of the Middle East and war in Ukraine, Israel’s brutal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had drifted into the shadows. But the assassination of Al

Land ports in connectivity, trade, growth

THE Bangladesh Land port Authority was set up in 2001 with the enactment of the Bangladesh Land Port Act 2001 by the parliament. So, the authorities, as an organisation, are

Empire’s fleeting leadership in its yard

THE just concluded Summit of the Americas is nothing but a show of the empire’s fleeting leadership in a region that the empire considers as its backyard. Joe Biden, the

Why do Taliban want to move Afghan capital?

AS EVIDENCED by information coming from Afghanistan, the situation and socio-economic position in the country is deteriorating. Every second Afghan resident is now suffering from hunger, and, in the near