The Daily Star

Bangladesh: Monopolising loan defaults 1
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- June 23, 2019
The Daily Star June 24, 2019 The shocking truth about the banking sector The finance minister’s revelation in parliament that half of all the defaulted bank loans in Bangladesh was held by 0.17 percent of borrowers, is simply astonishing. Total bad loans now stand at a whopping Tk 1 lakh crore and the number of
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ASEAN’s clean chit to Myanmar 0
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- June 9, 2019
June 10, 2019 A fig leaf to hide the truth A leaked report prepared by the regional body’s Emergency Response and Assessment Team (ASEAN-ERAT) on the Rohingya issue exposes a preposterous attempt to hide the facts about the brutality committed by the Myanmar army in Rakhine. In certain instances, the report echoes the position of
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India: Surfeit of slogans and sub-nationalism in Bengal 0
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- June 7, 2019
The Daily Star June 08, 2019 Trinamool Congress has decided to undertake a door-to-door campaign with the message how Bengal and Bangla culture are different from that BJP is trying to project. Pallab Bhattacharya POST-PARLIAMENTARY elections, a battle over sub-nationalism along ideological lines is on in West Bengal between Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. That
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Duel at the Shangri-La dialogue: Implications for us all 0
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- June 7, 2019
The Daily Star June 08, 2019 China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe (left) and acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan (front second right) attend the opening of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on May 31, 2019. PHOTO: AFP Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury The Annual Jamboree of global defence leaders at the Shangri La Dialogue in
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Bangladesh enforced disappearances; Accounting for those gone missing 1
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- May 26, 2019
Whose responsibility is it? The Daily Star 26 May 2019 Between 2009 and 2018, since the Awami League government came to office, 507 people have become victims of enforced disappearances, according to the International Federation for Human Rights. This is an extremely disconcerting statistic, especially because most of the families of those who have been
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Only the people can save Assange and Manning 0
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- May 25, 2019
The Daily Star May 25, 2019 by Eresh Omar Jamal Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist working for the Italian daily La Repubblica. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to expose the Snowden Files about Italy. She has authored two books—Dossier WikiLeaks: Segreti Italiani and Una
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BJP’s election victory: Of Modi, by Modi and for Modi 0
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- May 25, 2019
The Daily Star May 25, 2019 by Pallab Bhattacharya The two most commonly used taglines for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign in the just concluded parliamentary elections were “phir ek baar Modi sarkar” and “Modi hai to mumkin hai.” Both have come tellingly true as borne out the poll outcome that gave a much bigger
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Indian National Election; Anti-immigrant rhetoric and its impact on Bangladesh 0
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- April 23, 2019
April 23, 2019 The 2019 Indian general election, which will have its third round of polling today, is proving to be as challenging as predicted. With 900 million people eligible to vote and set to be held in a total of seven phases over six weeks, this election is being touted as the world’s largest
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Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banani building fire death toll rises to 13 0
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- March 29, 2019
The Daily Star March 28, 2019 Banani building fire death toll rises to 13 Fire breaks out at Banani FR Tower in Dhaka on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Photo: Palash KhanStar Online Report At least 13 persons, including a Sri Lankan citizen, were killed and 70 others injured in a fire that broke out at
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Bangladesh; Woman in prison for derogatory remarks against the prime minister 0
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- March 19, 2019
The Daily Star March 16, 2019 BFF’s women wing chairman Kiron arrested in Dhaka Mahfuza Akter Kiron. File photo Star Online Report Bangladesh Football Federation’s women wing chairman and FIFA council member Mahfuza Akter Kiron was arrested today in a defamation case lodged under ‘CrPC 500’ by a sports organiser. Kiron was arrested from Dhanmondi
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Our Captured, Wounded Hearts 0
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- March 7, 2019
By deploying the IAF, Narendra Modi has ensured that Kashmir is conclusively internationalised Arundhati Roy. Photo: Collected Arundhati Roy 7 March 2019 With his reckless “pre-emptive” airstrike on Balakot in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inadvertently undone what previous Indian governments, almost miraculously, succeeded in doing for decades. Since 1947 the Indian government has
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Return of Rohingya: UNHCR seeks clarification from India 0
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- January 5, 2019
Unb, Dhaka 5 January 2019 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has sought clarification from India over the return of Rohingya and regretted the India’s decision. “UNHCR regrets India’s decision to repatriate a group of Rohingya to Myanmar, the second such return in three months,” said the UN refugee agency on Friday. UNHCR said it continues to
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Bangladesh Election: Mother of four ‘gang-raped by AL men’ for voting for opposition BNP 0
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- January 4, 2019
Mother of four ‘gang-raped by AL men’ The Daily Star 1 January 2019 Victim claims she was targeted for voting for ‘sheaf of paddy’ Our Correspondent, Noakhali A mother of four was gang-raped in Noakhali’s Subarnachar early yesterday allegedly by 10 to 12 Awami League activists. The 35-year-old woman, who was being treated at Noakhali
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Election violence – Bangladesh 0
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- December 26, 2018
The Daily Star December 27, 2018 No end in sight to violence Pabna-4 BNP candidate stabbed, flown to Dhaka; Fakhrul’s wife alleges threats from AL men 953 Stabbed BNP candidate for Pabna-4 Habibur Rahman Habib is being taken to hospital after alleged Awami League men attacked him and his supporters on Alhaj School ground in
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