JUNE is the month of public fear in Bangladesh because the declaration of the budget in this month invariably pushes the prices of necessities further upward. This year, such an
THE stock market boomed after the much-awaited domestic debt restructuring programme, but the national economy continues to be in deep trouble. It does not seem to have the productive capacity
UZRA Zeya is president Joe Biden’s human rights point person. Her July 8-14 visit to Bangladesh and India is being seen as important to Biden’s interest in sprucing up his
INDIA’S prime minister, Narendra Modi, spoke at the joint session of the US Congress on June 23. It is his second official trip and speech in seven years. He said,
DENGUE is the most widely distributed mosquito-borne viral disease. It continues to spread rapidly because of climate change, rapid urbanisation and population growth. These conditions create a high population density
THE mainstream abstains from discussing two aspects of the partition, a dagger-act: the harm to people’s struggle for a democratic, dignified life free from injustice and exploitation, and resistance by
IT IS a multi-layered question, which, therefore, has multiple answers. Extremism itself has many layers — from violent extremism to structural extremism — and, like all extremism, threatens the state.
The US public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war, writes Chris Hedges THE playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one
THE on-going session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is proof enough that the international quest for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka is continuing. UN Human Rights
RESCUE efforts to find and rescue the passengers of the Titan submersible who had ventured into the Atlantic Ocean to view the remains of the Titanic have, as of this