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WhiteBoard, a must-read for youths to relate Bangabandhu’s policies to today’s development
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WhiteBoard, a must-read for youths to relate Bangabandhu’s policies to today’s development

Ask this generation what images they relate to on hearing about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the answer you are most likely to receive is his fiery speech, the gift of the red and green flag, and the unrelenting love for his countrymen. What you are least likely to hear is his policies and plans that shaped up the country’s course of development. To give access to that chapter, WhiteBoard, a newly launched policy magazine, dived deep into his policies and plans in its first issue, creating a space for the experts who either worked with Bangabandhu on formulating policies or possess ample knowledge of that matter.The publication gives a perspective that while youths observe today’s development and progress, they hardly recall that the seed of those developments was sown by Bangaban...
In emails, Sacklers fret over wealth, opioid business
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In emails, Sacklers fret over wealth, opioid business

NEW YORK: Soon after a Purdue Pharma LP affiliate pleaded guilty to misbranding its addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin in 2007, the company's Sackler family owners fretted about possible threats to their wealth. On May 17, 2007, Jonathan Sackler, who has since passed away, emailed relatives and a financial advisor, triggering an anxious discussion, according to settlement documents US prosecutors disclosed on Wednesday. He told them an investment banker had once told him that his family "is already rich, the one thing you don’t want to do is to become poor.” David Sackler responded the same day: " hat do you think is going on in all of these courtrooms right now? We’re rich? For how long? Until which suits get through to the family?" Between 2008 and 2019, Purdue transferred more...
Trump’s stock market: A wild four years
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Trump’s stock market: A wild four years

The Trump rally, a trade war, and then a crippling pandemic: The four years since President Donald Trump's 2016 election victory have been a period like no other for the U.S. stock market. REUTERS: The Trump rally, a trade war, and then a crippling pandemic: The four years since President Donald Trump's 2016 election victory have been a period like no other for the U.S. stock market. Hours after Trump's unexpected win on Nov. 8, 2016, expectations of massive tax cuts and financial deregulation kicked off a stock rally that saw the S&P 500 surge 5per cent in a month. Wall Street continued its path higher through a trade war and impeachment, going on to new record highs following a deep slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic that continues to cripple the global economy. Graphic: Tru...
Jakarta governor to take protesters’ demand to repeal labour law to President Widodo
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Jakarta governor to take protesters’ demand to repeal labour law to President Widodo

JAKARTA: The governor of Indonesia's capital on Friday (Oct 9) said he would inform President Joko Widodo of protesters' demand for a polarising new labour law to be repealed, as a growing number of regional leaders oppose the new legislation. Thousands took to the streets of cities across Indonesia in the past three days, part of protests and national strikes against a law they say undermines labour rights and weakens environmental protections. Clashes erupted in some cities, including in Jakarta where protesters burnt public transport facilities and damaged police posts. "Yesterday I also met with the protesters and we had brief discussion with them, I'd told them that we had listened to your voices and I will convey the message," Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan told Reuters. He d...
Intellectuals form Sampritee Bangladesh to provide a strong platform for secular forces
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Intellectuals form Sampritee Bangladesh to provide a strong platform for secular forces

In order to strengthen secular forces, several intellectuals have joined to form an organization called Sampritee Bangladesh (Harmonious Bangladesh) to weaken those who attempt to target the nation.Professor Mamun Al Mahtab (Shwapnil), Chairman, Department of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and Member Secretary of Sampritee Bangladesh, and Pijush Bandyopadhyay, Convener, Sampritee Bangladesh, in an opinion article said: "There is no place for filthy communalism and Rajakars in our thousand year’s history of unity and harmony. We have to stand against them who want to tarnish the spirit of 1971 in the name of religion.""This is the concept that led to the formation of our organization Sampritee Bangladesh (Harmonious Bangladesh). We had series of meetings with opinio...
Imran Khan-led Pakistan govt will be sent packing by January 2021: Bilawal Bhutto
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Imran Khan-led Pakistan govt will be sent packing by January 2021: Bilawal Bhutto

Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would be sent packing by January 2021, and a 'people's government' would take over, said Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing a public gathering.He also pointed out that even though Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) had not yet become a separate province, the PTI government at the center had already imposed taxes on the region's people.“Today, every section of the society was protesting against the PTI government,” he asserted while addressing the gathering at the main Skardu Bazaar as part of the party's campaign for the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections in November.He also declared that the campaign for the right to rule and right to property belonged to the PPP."PPP is the only party which included ...
Alibaba servers in India are stealing data of Indian users: Reports
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Alibaba servers in India are stealing data of Indian users: Reports

As many as 72 servers, which are based in India, are allegedly sending data of Indian users to China and at the center of this are cloud data servers of Chinese technology group, Alibaba, top intelligence sources have said.According to the officials, Alibaba’s cloud data servers are widely popular among businesses because they offer services at a far cheaper rate than European servers.However, they are seemingly responsible for “data stealing” from India, and have been allegedly found to be sending over data to China, a claim, the e-commerce giant has denied.According to sources, almost 72 data servers operated by Alibaba in India have been identified as sending data of Indian users to China.This is allegedly a systematic plan that has been organized by Chinese authorities, and works by fl...
Turkey hiring Kashmiri separatists to tarnish India’s image globally
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Turkey hiring Kashmiri separatists to tarnish India’s image globally

As a part of a carefully crafted conspiracy to malign India’s image across the world, Ruwa Shah, daughter of separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah, in an article published in Turkish media talked about how she feels for her allegedly besieged home while staying thousands of miles away in Turkey. While sharing her views she also mentioned that children in Kashmir never had a normal life.Altaf is an accused of terror funding in a case registered in 2017 by India's National Investigation Agency (NIA). As per NIA, separatist leader Altaf Shah was found to be involved in receiving and collecting funds through illegal means, including hawala for causing disruption in Kashmir Valley by way of pelting stones on security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India.Th...
South link needs clarity
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South link needs clarity

As plans for the southern land bridge project make the headlines, doubts are growing on whether the multi-billion-dollar project will ever materialize, despite its economic benefits.Recently, Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered a new feasibility study for a land bridge in the South, which would connect Chumphorn province on the western coast of the Gulf of Thailand and Ranong province on the southeastern shores of the Andaman Sea.According to him, as the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) alone won't be enough to boost the economy in the long run, the government had to look for another megaproject to invest in. Ultimately, it was decided that a land bridge would be a good choice.Two projects were considered -- in addition to the land bridge, the government also looked at buildin...
President Xi Jinping undertakes fresh round of brutal purge in China
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President Xi Jinping undertakes fresh round of brutal purge in China

Millions of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres are potentially at risk of being targeted now as President Xi Jinping has launched a fresh round of purges, as a part of his ongoing anti-corruption campaign.Under the campaign, over two dozen police and judicial officials were investigated, with dozens more removed from their posts in August.A senior ally to Xi’s called for the purge in July, saying it was time to ‘turn the blade of a knife inwards, cure the poison by scrapping it from the bones’ that must cleanse the country’s justice system of corrupt elements and purge officials who only paid lip service to the CCP.A “Yan’an Rectification Movement” style purge of party cadres was first announced by Chen Yixin on July 8 during a meeting of the Central Political and Legal Commission, a pol...