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HC asks govt, NHRC to frame guidelines

The High Court on Monday asked the government authorities to explain in four weeks why Section 19 (b) of the Guardian and Ward Act, 1890 that allows the father only as the guardian of a minor child would not be declared as unconstitutional being ‘discriminatory’...

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Caught in a quagmire

EVEN in the post-Covid period, the Bangladeshi economy was going to take a turn-around, with macroeconomic indicators posting positive signals. However, the Russia-Ukraine war began to cast a gloom by disrupting...

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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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Monowarul Hoque dies

Md Monowarul Hoque, a founding director of ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·, died at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday...

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Two dozen killed in Darfur town as war spreads

Clashes between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary have killed at least 25 civilians in the North Darfur town of El-Fasher, a pro-democracy lawyers committee said on Tuesday...

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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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Secret agreements

WHILE the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood even as it denies supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with...

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US war against Yemen heats up

THE US war against Yemen is slowly but surely heating up. With more and bigger bombs the US is doing the only thing it knows how when what it is doing isn’t working, something even Genocide Joe Biden has admitted...

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The real target is China

THE occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and British counterparts. Official statements about the AUKUS security pact between...

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Bangladesh’s multi-layered roots of state

THE Bangladesh state in 1971 is complex in its functional identity as it was a state in occupation fighting for liberation. The state formation process followed unorthodox routes, incorporating both formal and informal realities in separate and...

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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...

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50 years should be given for probe if needed: LM

Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Thursday that a probe should be granted 50 years, if necessary, in order to identify the perpetrators in the case filed over the killings of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012...

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Israel’s war on aid workers in Gaza

EULOGIES should rarely be taken at face value. Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues. But there was little in the way...