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World Cup frenzy
The greatest football festival almost changed the lifestyle of people who went crazy if they missed even a single minute of a game. That's football at its best.
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Machine readable passport
I write in response to the letter by R. Khondakar of July 10. It seems that all machine readable immigration documents such as passports, visas and permanent residency cards have the sex of the bearer denoted either by a "f" or "m" (for female and male respectively) between two 7 digit number for her/his date of birth and the expiry of the document itself (2 for year, 2 for month, 2 for date plus 1 digit for cross check).
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North Korea's missile diplomacy
North Korea declared with great fanfare the testing of its long-range Taeopodong II missiles, which could reach the shores of Alaska.
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Opposing hartal
Mr. Sanjoy of Chittagong has written a very apt letter of protest against the hartals and disruptions in society by both the government and the opposition. I salute him for his thoughts.
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Zidane's sad exit
Zidane ended his long and glorious career by being expelled in extra time, costing France the World Cup. Zidane will be criticised badly for his ugly attack on an Italian player.
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Beware of 'assassinators'
The article in your daily entitled 'Character assassination: who is next?' published on 22/06/06 is a timely endeavour to arouse the conscience of the members of the civil society against this sort of
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Meeting with President
I find the issue of whether Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar was the acting president or the president because, as he said, "The president and in case of anybody who discharges duties to the post of the
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Prove me wrong, politicians
I liked the article Govt says wait but Tata pushes on.., as it brings out the true reason for not finalising the Tata investment by the present government.
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BTTB lagging behind
Land phone service rendered by BTTB is still the most dominant one, despite the availability of and easy access to the various mobile phone services.
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Tata's investment plan
After graduating from Dhaka University in 1980 we came to the USA. All of us studied Geology and finished higher studies in Geology but the crude oil price went down to $12 per barrel.
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Public toilets
We need more public toilets - and it's the responsibility of various shopping centres and related places to have such facilities.
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Brave boatmen
We were all shocked at the tragic incident of 24 June that happened in our territorial water at anchorage "Charlie' of Chittagong anchorage of the Bay of Bengal.
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Prices of essentials
These days prices of essentials have gone beyond the affordability of common people. Prices of essentials were never so high in the last two decades.
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