Opinion

Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 08:32 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

Uzra Zeya’s ambitious India visit

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

Modi lies to US public once again

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,

All we should know about dengue

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

Sketch of a jab and resistance

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

Does Islamic extremism have a future in Bangladesh?

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.

After Afghanistan and Iraq, they are lying about Ukraine

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

Sincerity needed, not one-off steps to reconcile

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

The global hypocrisy of rescuing the Titan

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

The failed Ukrainian peace deal

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin, during his meeting in St. Petersburg with a delegation of African countries last week, presented the draft of an agreement which was ‘preliminarily signed’ with Ukraine

The half serious cold war and Taiwan

WOULD Antony Blinken be visiting China if there was considerable interest to reduce the so-called rising ‘hostility’ between the two superpowers? There were not too many secretaries of state visiting