Opinion

Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 08:50 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

Humanity imperilled

WHAT is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extra-terrestrial observer

Theft at British Museum

WHAT happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another. One therefore greets the realisation that the British Museum has

Kazi Nazrul’s death anniv today

Today is the 47th anniversary of the death of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The death anniversary of Nazrul, widely known as the rebel poet, is observed in Bangladesh on

Why won’t Putin attend G20? Will Xi?

IT WAS known that president Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20, but will Xi Jinping attend? Let me take up Putin first: Putin did not attend the Bali Summit

Clashing anniversaries in South Africa

IN THE 1980s millions of people were organised into militant trade unions and community organisations across South Africa. At the time it was argued that South Africa, along with Haiti

Private military cos continue to expand in Africa

The recent coup in Niger threatens to unleash more private military and security companies on a continent where they have become steadily more powerful in recent decades, writes John P Ruehl

Deeds matter more than promises for Lanka future

THE situation in Sri Lanka, particularly with regard to the economy and politics, can be described as stable but stagnant. The economy is stable in that it has not experienced

Africa for Africans

The animosities toward the French abroad among Nigeriens have been widely reported. But history is only part of the story, and not the largest part. Those who led the coup

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