Opinion

Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 08:26 pm

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Maiden century by Varma gives India unbeatable series lead Bangladesh’s interim govt head for attracting more foreign investment in manufacturing sector 7 weak banks get Tk 6,585cr from 10 strong banks Professor Yunus to inaugurate waiting lounge at Dhaka airport HC declares immunity provision in quick rental act illegal BNP demands advanced treatment for July uprising victims Labour counsellor in Geneva called back over harassment of Asif Nazrul Ex-Dhaka-7 lawmaker Solaiman Salim arrested Hope for Rohingya rights and dignity SC stays HC order doubling Khaleda’s sentence in Zia Orphanage Trust Case

Opinion

August 15 plotters wanted to turn Bangladesh into neo-Pakistan

What Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib could have never imagined that had happened on August 15, 1975 as some Bangalee military officers brutally assassinated him along with family members on his own

Hype, hope and helplessness

BEFORE the August 22–24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics — and struck fear into many Western elites’ hearts and minds — at

World would be better off without NATO

IF YOU believed the two central tenets of western dogma and propaganda about the Ukraine war, namely that Russia’s invasion was unprovoked and that Moscow has imperial ambitions beyond Ukraine’s

Rumours point to west’s paranoia

REUTERS carried a speculative report earlier this month (reversed the next day) that Indian prime minister Narendra Modi might not attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in person and furthermore

Words written at 80

WORDS come to meaning within the context of expression, which is time and place. Call it the stage upon which actors — words — are confined. Maybe they can break

Fitch downgrades US debt rating

ON TUESDAY, Fitch Ratings, one of the leading three US credit rating agencies, announced: The US’s long-term foreign-currency issuer defaulting rating would be downgraded. Among other factors pushing this downgrading,

Struggles of Black and African history in Britain

THE University of Chichester has unilaterally announced that it will suspend the important MRes (Master by Research) on ‘The History of Africa and the African Diaspora’. This decision was abruptly

Ukraine and the world order

The war in Ukraine is not just about territory. It’s about the future of global governance, writes John Feffer AS THE Cold War began to wane, multipolarism became a rallying cry

How to get aid to millions in Syria now

The UN mandate that allowed humanitarian agencies to send aid through a single border crossing in northern Syria has lapsed. The future of such deliveries is now worryingly unclear, write Cathrin

Stormy waters in American politics

THE American political landscape has suddenly been inundated with a lot of talk about ‘investigations’ on both sides of the divide. While Donald Trump awaits a looming third indictment, in