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It’s time to say ‘no’ to discriminatory quota

IN RECENT days, Bangladesh has seen student protests in many parts of the country, especially on university campuses. The protesting students have valid reasons to protest about a quota system that they find highly unfair and discriminatory. A whopping 30 per cent of the well-paid and massively oversubscribed Bangladesh Civil Service posts...

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Shafi Ahmed laid to rest

Shafi Ahmed, former member of the Liberation War affairs sub-committee of the Awami League and former general secretary of the JSD Chhatra League central committee, was laid to eternal rest at Netrakona municipality graveyard on Wednesday...

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Govt should recognise April 10 as republic day

THE demand for April 10 to be recognised and observed as republic day merits a serious government consideration. Almost all political parties in the opposition, many civic groups, historians and intellectuals have on different occasions..

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Liberation DocFest Bangladesh begins

A five-day film festival, titled 12th Liberation DocFest Bangladesh, featuring works by local and foreign filmmakers began at the Liberation War Museum in...

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Declaring April 10 as Republic Day demanded

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD on Wednesday placed six demands, including declaring April 10 as Republic Day since Bangladesh’s Proclamation of Independence was adopted on this day in 1971, to run the country in the spirit of liberation war...

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Dying rivers in independent Bangladesh

DURING the liberation war, people of this land chanted, ‘[The River] Padma, Meghna, Jamuna is our destiny (Padma, Meghna, Jamnuna, tomar amar thikana’). Bangladesh — the birth of the nation...