Opinion

Sun, 19 Jan 2025, 11:07 am

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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

Potential backlash of delaying Hasina’s extradition

FOLLOWING months of speculation, the government of Bangladesh finally announced on October 30, 2024, its intention to initiate the extradition process for Sheikh Hasina, contingent on her conviction verdict, presumably

Govt partnership with other parties essential

THE National People’s Party’s main attraction at the presidential election, and one of its key campaign promises, was to bring a stop to the corruption that has increasingly held the

Argument for university status for seven colleges

THE seven colleges under consideration — Dhaka College, Eden Mohila College, Government Titumir College, Kabi Nazrul Government College, Begum Badrunnesa Government Girls’ College, Shaheed Suhrawardy College, and Mirpur College —

An elite force under scrutiny

THE Rapid Action Battalion was formally established on March 26, 2004, under the Armed Police Battalion (Amendment) Act, 2003, as an elite law enforcement unit in Bangladesh, operating under the

Israel’s assassination campaign

IN RECENT times, Israel’s geopolitical calculus has taken even more aggressive steps and strategies, executing the high-profile assassinations of Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah.

Lebanon vs Israeli savagery

THE Israeli war machine is accelerating its attacks on North Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and as far away as Yemen. It even hit Egypt ‘by mistake.’ The assassination of

Historical lessons and their relevance today

THROUGHOUT history, scholars have grappled with the question of why some nations flourish while others fall into decline. Two landmark works — Why Nations Fail (2012) by Daron Acemoglu and

New start in foreign relations can be in focus

SRI Lankan diplomatic missions that took a keen interest in the outcome of the presidential election have lost no time in reaching out to president Anura Kumara Dissanayake after his

It is the lack of a two-state solution that most threatens Israel

ISRAEL rejects the two-state solution because it claims that a sovereign state of Palestine would profoundly endanger Israel’s national security. In fact, it is the lack of a two-state solution

Bangladesh: yesterday and tomorrow

BANGLADESH became an independent nation-state in 1971. In its 53 years of Journey, Bangladesh has many success stories to tell, from being considered a bottomless basket to an emerging economy.