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Japan's bullet train: A case of technology transfer

Bangladesh is contemplating to introduce high-speed train service between Dhaka and Chittagong. The train with 'Duck-bill' nose, designed to reduce the piston effect as the trains enter tunnels, is one of Japan's technological marvels. In 1964, Japan introduced the new mode of high-speed transportation: Shinkansen. In English, colloquially it's known...

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#MeToo and the Animal Farm

If not invited so warmly by Napoleon, George Orwell have had no plan to revisit Animal Farm he crafted in 1945. Orwell had not visited it since 1950. But he agrees to reappear for a few days and to see its quaint cosmopolitan culture. He formally receives multiple invitations from...

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