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Osama Rahman

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#JournalismIsDead / Government offers information streaming service Proper Gander for only 300 BDT per month

The government yesterday declared that not all citizens had the right to information, but they could get it by paying a modest amount.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
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THE BIG DIVORCE / Bill to open up to sympathetic Bangladeshi online media instead of Oprah

“She forced me to take weeklong vacations with an ex-girlfriend. She forced me to spend days on the beach with my ex.”
7 May 2021, 18:00 PM
7 May 2021, 18:00 PM
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Morally upstanding preacher loves wife so much, he wants two of them

A morally upstanding preacher, who made a name for himself by spewing violent vitriol against more liberal members of his community on a daily basis, yesterday disclosed to the media that he had a side-wife as well.
9 April 2021, 18:00 PM
9 April 2021, 18:00 PM
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‘Homelessness a great excuse to work harder’

Is it better to stay in a toilet for seven months with four others or is it better to work 10-hour shifts with no toilet breaks?
2 April 2021, 18:00 PM
2 April 2021, 18:00 PM
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People who ‘managed’ crucial vaccine despite not meeting criteria still proud of themselves

Of all the people who inundated the country’s social media feed with pictures of them getting vaccinated, more than half had not met the criteria, data from a public health watchdog shows.
26 March 2021, 18:00 PM
26 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Government employees donate 25% of salary for city’s decorations

Red lights. Green light. Then blue lights. And some yellow lights. It doesn’t matter when the colours stop representing what they are meant to because we don’t have enough of those colours.
19 March 2021, 18:00 PM
19 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Country’s image more fragile than male ego? One country finally opens up

Osama Rahman [OR]: We all want to know one thing and I want to get right to the point. Why is your image being tarnished so easily? Do critical words really take away from how far you have come since you were declared a basket case by a racist, mass murderer?
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Government officially launches The Snitches Club

The Government of Chapasthan officially launched The Snitches Club earlier yesterday. An initiative of the Ministry of Misinformation, the club was inaugurated by the country’s leader, who attended virtually from their official residence.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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MINISTER CAMPAIGN FOR AWARENESS ON VIRUS, INFECTS LITERALLY EVERYONE

An arrest warrant was issued for Minister of Footpaths Abdul Kander for inadvertently spreading the newest strand of the now highly contagious Dengue virus during his awareness campaign against it.
20 March 2020, 18:00 PM
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The million ants’ migration

It was supposed to be a match made in heaven. Until international politics came to the fore.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
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What’s wrong with my finger?

Did the electronic voting machine fail to recognise your fingerprint? Were you told your fingers weren’t moisturised enough? Were you shamed for your sweaty hands? Were you called old? The truth behind why your fingerprints weren’t recognised is not that simple. Here’s the truth. Brace yourself:
7 February 2020, 18:00 PM
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Just want to be loved: EVM

Osami Garbwell makes a spectacular return to interview the most talked about person in town: Electronic Voting Machine. The following are excerpts from the interview:
31 January 2020, 18:00 PM
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The misleading claims

Suu Kyi: Please allow me to clarify the term clearance operation. Its meaning has been distorted. As early as the 1950s has been used against communists. It simply means to clear an area of insurgents or terrorists.
11 December 2019, 18:00 PM
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The cost of citizenship

Shuttered shops and vacant alleys present quite a different picture of the usually bustling corridors within Geneva Camp, located in the capital’s Mohammadpur.
24 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Cops arrest 11 more burglars

The crackdown against burger joints around the city reached new heights after a chain of burger-peddlers, known as burglars, was
26 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Former religious, genocidal party forms new non-religious, genocidal party

Rudolph Shitler and Joseph Phony yesterday shocked the world by joining hands in what has been dubbed by the media an “unholy
9 May 2019, 18:00 PM
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Murders he wrote

A politically-affiliated murderer may just be planning his big comeback. At least that is what the locals in his area believe. For them, it is a nightmare come true.
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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Suhrawardy Evacuation: Heroes born out of blaze

Around 5:00pm, Dr Noor Ahmed Talukder along with others was in the middle of an operation at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Satire: SomeBODI that I used to know

The #ThoughtsandPrayers agency in heaven went into delirium on Saturday when famed anti-drug activist Baby Boudee held a milad-e-mehfil, requesting divine intervention to rid the country of the scourge of drugs.
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Let's Football

Football fever has reached its peak all over the world over due to the ongoing FIFA World Cup. However, Bangladesh's foray into the global sport was met with deafening criticism, owing to widespread allegations of corruption in the augural Independent Cup of Digital Democracy (ICDD).
12 July 2018, 18:00 PM
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RELISHING RAMADAN

The coming month of Ramadan brings forth two widely different forms of enjoyment: one being the fast and the other the breaking of
9 May 2018, 18:00 PM
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No child left behind

Ex manus capere. Detach from the hand.
3 May 2018, 18:05 PM
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Bank of the bold

Bangladesh International Vote Banking brings you the opportunity to avail dead people votes, double votes, interest-based group votes, and much more, all designed in ways to suit you.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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­­New names, new solutions

Kamrul Hussain, a small trader in Cumilla, sits sprawled across a sofa in his comfortable two-room apartment in the city. He is gloating. “I cannot wait for us to become a developing country. I might actually be able to buy this place if that happens,” he says.
5 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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Do you take cards?

If you like eating out, then you must have asked the title question, more than once in your lifetime. In Dhaka nowadays, the answer to
4 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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Reporting Trauma Empathy Not Sympathy

The recent BS211 crash went down as one of the gravest chapters in Bangladesh's aviation history. But before the dust had settled and the survivors had a chance to process their grief, rampant media speculation turned the spotlight to the conduct of the newsmen themselves.
22 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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Flight of the survivors

It was a momentary respite from a black chapter for many people. This particular Biman Bangladesh flight BG072 from Kathmandu to Dhaka was carrying Almun Nahar Annie, Mehedi Hasan and Kamrunnahar Shwarna -- three survivors of the BS211 air crash.
16 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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A return no one ever expects

Almun Nahar Annie, one of the survivors, had been refusing to go back to Bangladesh. Last night though, she finally changed her mind. Annie lost her husband FH Priok and their only child Tamarra in the BS211 crash. What does she have to go back to?
15 March 2018, 18:00 PM

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