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Child labour
According to census data, children constitute nearly 12% of the total labour force. This figure is quite high compared to the figures for the world (3.8 %).
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Building collapse
We have seen the photograph of Afsana in the newspapers. She was crying over the dead body of her husband. Her husband was the victim of the collapsed building.
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If women want a change....
The gap between the rich and poor has long been a problem for Bangladesh society. Women in particular occupy a weak position socially and tend to be the ones who suffer most from the poverty divide.
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Israel's real face
Mordechai Vanunu, a 50-year-old former nuclear technician at Israel's Dimona atomic reactor, has fallen under another ban by Israeli government on leaving his country.
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What's going on?
1971 . The year of our liberation war. Attacked by Pakistanis! Torture! Rape! Murder! Blood & blood! Lives & lives! We lost a lot!! But one thing remains. And that is unity--the power.
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Student-based politics
Many conscious citizens are not happy the way students are used in our politics. Such feedbacks are getting more frequent in the press.
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Religion page
Being a regular reader, I often go through the letters published in SWM. A small letter written by Raisa on April 9, 2005 in support of the letter of Ahmed Raiyan in the March 25 issue attracted my attention.
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Country of dreams
I am a student of an engineering university of Bangladesh. I am in 3rd year now. I am familiar with lifestyles of people in different parts of the country.
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Tributes to a justice
The pious soul of Justice Bimalendu Bikash Roy Choudhury returned to the Almighty on 10th April 2005.
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Mockery of law
Recently the BNP led coalition government passed an act to ban smoking in public places. The bold initiative of the government deserves praise. But sadly enough, the law is being shrugged off.
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Communal thinking
It is shocking that the primary students of Bluebird High School in Sylhet are divided into two categories-- Hindu and Muslim.
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Why this delay?
The process of result publication in some departments of JU is intolerably long. The English Dept. most probably tops the list, which, in the recent past, has replaced the Pharmacy Dept.
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Railway collapsing?
Everybody knows that the Railway is the safest and most comfortable and convenient among all the mass-transit systems in the rest of the world (including the neighbouring country).
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Not that violent!
I have always heard that news reporters have a tendency of exaggerating news but never actually believed it, rather hadn't find any proof to draw myself into such conclusion until a recent incident.
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Government's failure
The truly pathetic thing about anti-Ahmadiyya attacks isn't so much that there are bigoted groups out there to oppress a minority community.
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