Opinion

Tue, 21 Jan 2025, 04:27 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

How climate change worsens avalanches

IN RECENT months, numerous reports of dangerous avalanches in the Himalayas have made the headlines. These sudden releases of snow, ice and rocks sweep down mountainsides, burying any people, animals

Erdogan no winner, despite opposition defeat

The Turkish opposition was defeated in the run-off, with candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu failing to unseat long-time ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will rule the country for another five years. But

Parliamentary support required for recovery

WITH less than a year and half to the presidential elections, president Ranil Wickremesinghe has a tight deadline to meet if he is to attain his aspirations for the country.

Boom and bust, and hybrid regime

THE sporadic violent attacks against the armed forces installations in Pakistan on May 9, mainly in the dominant province of Punjab, which is the backbone of the Army, by the

Visits of justice: Stella Assange’s plea to Australia

IT CERTAINLY got the tongues wagging, the keyboards pressed, and the intellectually dead aroused — at least for a time. Given how many of those in the Australian press and

Dream team for Lanka reconciliation

Sri Lanka’s president has recently been involved in a process of dialogue with the Tamil political parties to find a solution to the problem as has taken place many times

Politics of reimagination: Shakespeare now

Michael Dobson, a professor of Shakespeare studies, speaks with Shahman Moishan about the meaning of global Shakespearean appropriation through the performance, literature and other cultural productions Shahman Moishan: ST Coleridge, as

Forecast of ‘One-Eleven’ storm in politics

Sometimes I really like BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s comments. He often reveals the truth unintentionally or his face says it all. For example, last Saturday (13th May)

Assessing the Turkish elections

BY THE narrowest of margins, the Turkish elections remain formally inconclusive after the votes were counted on the early morning of May 15, with the prospect of a runoff election

What Congress win in Karnataka means

JUST as the Congress was being written off as a party that was slowly fading away from the political space, it won in Karnataka. This is a big surprise because