Time to challenge what we know: Radwan Mujib Siddiq
September 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Radwan Mujib Siddiq. File photo
Policymakers need to revisit their assumptions and undertake a more detailed analysis of who and w...
Bangladesh’s ruling party to unleash online army to 'stifl...
September 22 ,2021
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By: Faisal Mahmud
Under the garb of countering "fake news" on social media, critics say the ruling Awami League seeks to stifle and criminalise voices cr...
Bank account details summoned to scare journalists
September 21 ,2021
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By: Kamal Ahmed
In the backdrop of the failure of political powers to prevent the steady erosion of democracy, when it has become near impossible for f...
Deepening Japan–Bangladesh relations
September 21 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
As the world continues to struggle with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangladesh has been able to maintain economic gro...
Bangladesh to export 2,080 tonnes of hilsha to India
September 21 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The commerce ministry today gave go-ahead to 52 companies to export 2,080 tonnes of hilsa fish to India by October 10 this year, as the...
PM Hasina sends Modi bouquet of 71 roses on his 71st birth...
September 18 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi with a bouquet of 71 red roses on the occasion of his 71t...
A big study in Bangladesh finds simple ways to encourage m...
September 18 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
In Dhaka, bangladesh’s teeming capital of 18m, face masks are everywhere. They can be seen under the chins of street hawkers...
People Disappear, But Bangladesh is Blind to Credible Evid...
September 17 ,2021
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By: AK Abdul Momen
On August 16, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the United Nations to investigate the “enforced disappearances&rd...
Initial talks with Taliban can be thru’ its Doha office: E...
September 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh must decide on the Taliban issue with caution and patience, said experts at a virtual event on Wednesday.
If possible...
Bangladesh ruling party mobilizes online propaganda army t...
September 16 ,2021
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By: Ahammad Foyez
Two young Bangladeshis look at their mobile phones near Dhaka University, Aug. 30, 202, BenarNews.
The ruling Awami Leag...
Bangladesh tightens grip on Facebook, Twitter and other pl...
September 10 ,2021
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By: Syful Islam
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government have been tightening social media controls since 2018. (Nikkei montage/Reuters/A...
States in Action: Federalism and foreign policy in India
September 6 ,2021
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By: Chirayu Thakkar
In 2012, the Italian defense minister met the chief minister of the Indian state of Kerala requesting him to allow the trial...
Dengue adds to COVID-hit Bangladesh’s woes as dozens die
September 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Dengue patients at Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
Bangladesh...
To align its economic growth with happiness, Bangladesh mu...
September 3 ,2021
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By: Mahmudul Islam
AFP PHOTO
In recent years, Bangladesh impressed other nations with its remarkable gross domestic product growth story. But that ha...
Pran Group to invest in India, Nassa Group in Saudi Arabia
September 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pran Foods would invest $2,062,665 in the Pinnacle 4S Compnay Limited of India. File photo
Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh are showing...
The Push for a Green New Deal in Bangladesh
September 1 ,2021
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By: Pascale Hunt
Credit: Depositphotos
Coastal, low-lying, and brimming with communities settled on rivers and waterways, Bangladesh is one of...
Bangladeshi cholera vaccine scientist wins Asia's 'Nobel P...
September 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Firdausi Qadri was one of five recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, along with Pakistani development worker Muhammad Amjad Saqib....
6 Islamist militants in Bangladesh get death penalty for k...
August 31 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A Bangladeshi anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants, including a fugitive ex-army major, to death in the...
Wonder nasal vaccine knocking on the door
August 14 ,2021
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By: Mohammad Al-Masum Molla
One sniff, and you're vaccinated against Covid-19! Almost 100 percent protected against almost all variants.
It could be just that sim...
Nobody expected Bangladesh to achieve high economic growth...
August 14 ,2021
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By: Tim Worstall
A garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Bangladesh is now 50 years into its independence and it is worth as...
Sex, sleaze and Pori Moni: Rhea Chakraborty-type media tri...
August 12 ,2021
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By: Ruben Banerjee
Bangladeshi actress Shamsunnahar Smrity (left) and Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty (right)
Media trials are not exclusive to In...
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Colombo Chronicle
Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
