Opinion

Thu, 28 Nov 2024, 08:51 am

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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

Poverty amidst plenty

Liz Theoharis wirtes on a world fragmented by inequality A FEW weeks ago, the world’s power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town,

Zionism’s ‘three state solution’

ISRAEL calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year, 2023, will be the 75th year after the Nakba, the catastrophe

If we follow Marx that ‘material force must be overthrown by material force’, we can anticipate that though ‘refolutions’ create informal democratic spaces, they may not result in fundamental political

US officials knew they were crossing over

NEARLY a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in president Joe Biden’s own words, ‘Armageddon.’

Biden’s ‘fumbling’ doctrine

FORMER US defence secretary Bob Gates wrote in his memoir, Duty, that Joe Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past

Enlightened leadership to overcome challenges

BY PROROGUING the parliament, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has given the parliamentarians, and the country at large, a reminder of the power of the presidency. There was no evident

What future without rain, or aid?

‘A FULL-blown famine has been narrowly averted for now, but the hunger emergency has not gone away and remains catastrophic’, declared the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian

What’s next for Azerbaijani blockade

THE blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijani protesters claiming to be environmental activists has entered its second month, sparking a humanitarian crisis in the disputed territory and condemnation from the international

Quality of education

THE adage that ‘education is the backbone of a nation’ is one that we have all heard. It is central to a nation’s progress and can be thought of as

Are errors in textbooks mere mistakes?

Almost all common citizens of our country like me believe that Bangladesh is a Muslim majority, peaceful and non-communal country. A citizen here either Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist and