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Angela Merkel, the indispensable leader of an often factitious European Union, is about to step down. Photo: Reuters

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Why Merkel’s exit matters beyond Germany

When Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down after 16 years in power, Germany’s status in Europe and the world will be on the line

Samar Mitra, the Managing Partner of the vehicle-tracking system company AutoGuard, overseeing the installment of a GPS device in a motorbike. Photo: Noor A Alam

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No matter where you are, AutoGuard will stand guard over your vehicle

Moral compulsions might necessitate engaging in Afghanistan again, using different methods. Photo: Reuters

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How should the world engage with the Taliban? And how should Bangladesh?

Punit Goenka, son of Zee’s founder, will have an option to raise Zee company’s near-4 percent stake to 20 percent because of its merger with Sony Pictures Networks India. Photo: Reuters

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An Indian media mogul beat a US activist fund. Or did he?

Students need to re-learn how to find interest in studies and school, as Bangladesh lifted the world’s longest school closure on 12 September. Photo: Mumit M

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Can you write your name? A harrowing picture of learning loss around the country after 18 months of school closure

To expand the RMG sector to a more than $50-billion industry, Bangladesh needs to secure uninterrupted access to electricity and gas for the factories, among many other things. Photo: Mumit M

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RMG orders and exports have gone up. So have challenges

Protesters block the road in front of the Bank of England in the City of London on 14 October 2019 to call on financial institutions to do more to combat the climate and ecological emergency. Photo: Bloomberg

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Banks may be our best hope in fighting climate change

The submerged Southern Queen being refloated. Photo: Courtesy

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Prantik: The story behind Bangladesh’s first marine salvage company

BGMEA Vice-president Shahidullah Azim (Left) and Mutual Trust Bank Managing Director Syed Mahbubur Rahman. Illustration: TBS

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‘If BB provides support in terms of liquidity, banks and businesses will both benefit’

A hydrogen electrolysis plant in Germany. Green hydrogen holds enormous promise for the renewable energy sector. Photo: Bloomberg

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The promise of green hydrogen

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater perching over waterhole. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Boisterous bee-eaters dive and dunk, experts wonder why!

Marzanur Rahman, a director of RSRM

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‘We will turn RSRM into a multinational corporation from a family business’

Unless the social-media platform fundamentally rethinks how it develops products, Twitter’s troubles won’t go away. Photo: Reuters

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Twitter's business reboot is off to a troubling start