Opinion

Sun, 19 Jan 2025, 10:14 pm

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Israel continues strike on Syria military sites Rayo stymie Real’s climb to Liga summit Tk 14,000 set as minimum wage for cold storage workers BNP suggests reforms for public administration overhaul Probes, trials of war crimes cases stalled Coldwave hampers daily life across Bangladesh Dhaka becomes 3rd most polluted city with AQI score of 283 Body of JU student recovered from dormitory 550 individuals’ Tk 15,000cr frozen for investigation Financial Accountability: Critical step towards new future

Opinion

2024: people starve as the rich get richer

EARNING enough to pay the rent or mortgage, cover utility bills and travel costs, buy food and have the occasional coffee is difficult, impossible for many. But it’s not hard

THIS week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister

France losing grip on another colonial possession

Macron’s decision to send more troops to New Caledonia is a reflection of a serious breakdown of order in the island nation not seen since the 1980s, writes Mick Hall FEARS

Women for peace

WHEN Peta Jones Pellach raves about what she describes as the ‘wonderful event’, you can’t help but feel you missed out on something. On October 4, 2023, well over a

Ringing true for Gaza

AS ISRAELI troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing — yet again — hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there’s much to be learnt from recalling

Wickremasinghe’s commitment and reconciliation

ON NUMEROUS occasions, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that he was elected president to get Sri Lanka out of its economic morass and will do his utmost to

Improved international financial architecture needed

Last month’s IMF and World Bank meetings continued the discussions on reforming and right-sizing international financial institutions, but far more ambition is required ahead of UN climate talks, writes Rishikesh Ram

Steps into the 21st century

VLADIMIR Putin and Xi Jinping added another to their count of 40-odd summit meetings when the Russian and Chinese presidents convened in Beijing, later proceeding to Harbin in Northeast China,

Permafrost showdown

‘DEEP below the glistening surface of a frozen Arctic lake, something is bubbling — something that could cause global warming to accelerate beyond all previous projections… Now the freezer door

Ðiên Biên Phú at 70

I HAD the most salutary email the other day, a reviving lift amid these, humanity’s darkest days, surely, in the memory of anyone living. It was from George Burchett, an