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Allotment of candidates in Bandarban completed
Deputy Commissioner and District Returning Officer Shah Mojahid Uddin has allocated the symbols of the candidates to participate in the 12th National Assembly elections to be held on January 7. Deputy Commissioner and District Retu...
Yin and yang trump Marx and Lenin in China
A new book by Dr Levente Horváth, Director of the Eurasia Centre at Budapest’s John von Neumann University – “Chinese Geopolitical Thinking – The Belt and Road Initiative from a Chinese Perspective” – presents a nuanced (and unorthodox) interpretation of...
No clear Gaza message from EU, despite cease-fire calls
Two months into the war in Gaza, with the combined reported death toll of Israelis and Palestinians nearing 20,000, European Union leaders spent hours discussing the conflict in Brussels on Friday but did not issue the customary collective closing statement. "There are differ...
Addressing climate change through sustainable adaptation techniques
Global climate crisis has been one of the pressing concerns over the last some decades. Climate change is affecting peoples lives, livelihoods and biodiversity severely around the world. Floods, landslides, storms, droughts, heatwaves and cold spells are becoming more...
Would only contractionary policy curb inflation?
Bangladesh is going through a hard inflation rate. Food inflation in the country has been above 12 percent for three months. According to the report from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), food price inflation was 12.56 percent in October, the highest in the last...
Europe knows that climate action is vital to global security
“Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end three-degree temperature rise,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently warned. He is right. Unless we act decisively -- beginning at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) underway in Dubai...
Memories of victory
Now, we mark Victory Day every year to remember that it was not easy; that the nationhood of Bangladesh came at an extremely steep price, and the legacy of 1971 is one our people can never be allowed to forget. February 21 is a day...
Schoolboy's body recovered after 6 days
Police recovered the decomposed body of a fifth grader, who went missing on December 11, from a Mahogany orchard in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila on Sunday afternoon six days after he went missing. The deceased was identified as Shahin Ali, 11, son of Saner Ali, a resident of Adabaria union...
Army will act as striking force in polls: EC Alamgir
Election Commissioner Md Alamgir on Monday said the army will be deployed as a striking force in the national elections to be held on January 7. He came up with the comments while talking to journalists following a view exchange with the district's returning officer, assistant returning o...
EC recruits 653 judicial magistrates for five days
The Election Commission (EC) has recruited 653 judicial magistrates across the country for five days to hold the 12th national election properly.