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Graveyard of foreign policy
23 Jun 2014 3:45 AM ISTAs this article goes to print, Iraqi troops are engaged in fighting a bitter battle to death guarding the Baiji oil refinery and Tal afar airport in...
Inglorious Return of a War Hero
16 Jun 2014 4:13 AM ISTAs Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier held captive by the Taliban for five years in Afghanistan, returned to his home turf on Friday, he received...
The Year That Wasn’t
7 Jun 2014 1:14 AM ISTSome say the world changed in 1989. Probably it did, at least the world order that was bequeathed and birthed from the chaos of the two great wars....
SPECTACLE OF A CULTURAL RISING
26 May 2014 1:49 AM ISTSome public intellectuals and international media are much fond of portraying Bangladesh as a conservative Muslim society with exaggerated figures in...
Falling through the cracks
18 May 2014 5:27 AM ISTOn 14 April, 2014, armed Islamic militants, popularly known as Boko Haram, abducted 276 girls from their boarding school in Chibok, located in the...
Fall in US unemployment rate fails to enthuse markets
12 May 2014 2:10 AM ISTHeadline economic data releases point out that a gradual and sustained recovery in the US economy is underway. But it is quite surprising to note that...
Why Abbas reconciled with Hamas
12 May 2014 2:04 AM ISTA week before the deadline expired on the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks sponsored by John Kerry, the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas...
HOUSE OF BRICS
5 May 2014 1:27 AM ISTThe latest developments concerning Ukraine and United States of America’s unilateral announcement of sanctions against Russia have exposed the...
PLEBISCITES IN SOUTH ASIA
20 April 2014 11:17 PM ISTIt’s not very clear whether there is any regional political trend in the making, going by the patterns emerging in each South Asian countries which...
Saying No to Sanctions
31 March 2014 4:17 AM ISTEven as the West’s deepest fears about Vladimir Putin recreating the country of his youth, rebuilding Soviet Russia deal by deal, are at best...
Bangladesh and Bollywood sneer
17 March 2014 4:01 AM ISTWhile that may only be true for selected movies of a handful of directors or actors, genuine refinement in a Bollywood mainstream movie is still a far...
1971 on celluloid
17 March 2014 3:59 AM ISTBangladeshi youth are protesting against a new Bollywood action thriller that portrays 1971 struggle for independence from Pakistan wrongly. The...
India, US to expand trade, cut barriers, target $500 billion commerce...
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Canada will announce more than $20 billion in tariffs in response to...
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