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Nation pays homage to ’52 language martyrs

Nation celebrates international mother language day today in commemoration of martyrs of language movement this day on February 21 in 1952. Salam, Barkat ........More

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PM seeks views on language, culture

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hands over Ekushey Award among the winners at Osmani Memorial Auditorium on Friday. Photo: Focus Bangla

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has sought opinions to preserve and develop Bengali language, culture and creativity, and said her administration ........More

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Hasan’s remarks about handing over Anup Chetia to India misrepresentation by media, says Foreign Ministry official

A Foreign Ministry official on Friday said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud's remarks were not correctly reported by local and international ........More

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Importance of linguistic diversity and multilingualism

As many of his readers and critics couldn't understand his writing, French Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop, author of Doomi Golo, started to meet the needs of his language community by offering 'Wolof' workshops to interested children and youth in order to ensure a next generation of Wolof speakers. He decided to use writing not just as a tool to communicate his language "Wolof," but also as a political ........More

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Diplomatic efforts against the Gulf of Aden pirates

Twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year, transporting cargo that includes 12% of the world’s daily oil supply. In 2008, maritime piracy gangs operating from Somalia focused worldwide attention on the region by attacking a hundred vessels, hijacking ships, and seizing crew as hostages. Reminiscent of the Barbary pirates who terrorized the ........More

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Not only shuffles, admn to see reforms: Ashraf
Massive administrative reshuffle for dynamism

LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam speaks to the reporters at Awami League president's office at Dhanmondi in the capital on Thursday. Photo: bdnews24.com

The government will bring about reforms in the administration system, the local government minister said on Thursday ........More

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Role of MPs & UZ Chairmen in local dev
Balance of power in Upazila-level stressed

There should be a 'balance of power' between the Upazila Parishad Chairmen and the Member of Parliament (MPs) to ensure smooth functioning of different ........More

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RMG workers passing inhuman life
Work in miserable environment

Around 20 lakhs workers work in the city's at least three thousand garment factories in harmful environment about 12 hours per day to earn livelihood ........More

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When population growth and resource availability collide

As land and water become scarce, competition for these vital resources intensifies within societies, particularly between the wealthy and those who are poor and dispossessed. The shrinkage of life-supporting resources per person that comes with population growth is threatening to drop the living standards of millions of people below the survival level, leading to potentially unmanageable social tensions.
Access to land is a prime source of social tension. Expanding world population has cut the grainland per person in half ........More

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Kosovo: one year on

It doesn't stop there. EULEX advises Kosovo on legal reform. The original intention was that this process too would operate within the framework of the Ahtsaari plan. However, the six-point agreement with Serbia which secured EULEX's deployment in the Serb enclaves of Kosovo also restricts its mandate to the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 which brought the 1999 war to an end - and which established Kosovo as a protectorate ........More