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MATS students protest at National Press Club, Dhaka on 10 February 2025. File Photo: Focus Bangla
Health

What is behind dispute between MATS grads and medical students?

Their conflict has sparked nationwide protests, disrupting the health sector

A man living on the streets of San Francisco, California, displays what he says is the synthetic drug fentanyl. February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
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A person reads a newspaper following the appointment of Harini Amarasuriya as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka at a stall in Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Thilina Kaluthotage/File Photo
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Sri Lanka: Why did new president call a snap general election?

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The three reasons stated by govt for banning Jammat-Shibir

A police officer and residents inspect the remains of a rocket booster that, according to Israeli authorities critically injured a 7-year-old girl, after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, near Arad, Israel, April 14, 2024. REUTERS/Christophe van der Perre
Middle East

Explainer: Why and how Iran launched the unprecedented attack on Israel

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Explainer: What Exim and Padma banks have to do to execute their merger

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What is black cocaine?

FILE PHOTO: USA and Iranian flags are seen in this illustration taken, September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/file photo
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Fire and Oil: what can be consequences of US attack on Iran

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Intersex, transgender, hijra: Gender identities we should educate ourselves on

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan stand for a group photo with Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and his wife Naraporn Chao-ocha on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok, Thailand November 19, 2022. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/Pool/File Photo
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Explainer: What is APEC? Asia-Pacific leaders head to San Francisco

FILE PHOTO: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo
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Explainer - What is Australia's Indigenous 'Voice to Parliament' referendum?

Smoke rises from burning aircraft inside Khartoum Airport during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan April 17, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
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Explainer: Sudan's conflict and what worries neighbours, the US and others

A Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is test-launched by the Russian military at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk region, Russia, in this still image taken from a video released on April 20, 2022. Reuters.
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How Ukraine-Russian war will shape world's arsenals