Opinion

Thu, 28 Nov 2024, 10:39 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

Speaking with forked tongues

Bruce Lerro writes on crafting linguistic propaganda by boiling, freezing and muddying language CAN language limit thought? IF A dogmatic belief system can narrow the kind of vocabulary used, can

Pentagon’s intelligence failure on China

Michael T Klare says China’s CO2 emissions is the real threat to US security, a point absent from the latest Pentagon report GIVEN the secrecy typically accorded to the military and

Sri Lanka: pledges before polls

AFTER much procrastination the election commission has finally decided that local government elections will be held on March 9. The elections to these bodies had already been postponed by a

Breaking addiction to secrets and secrecy

The mainstream media has done their best to scramble the information on classified documents and the issue of secrecy. Because the media treasures the idea of balance and equivalence, it

An ancient recipe for social success

NEW evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy

It comes down to weapons

THE deep divisions in the US left over the Ukraine war can be reduced to a single practical question: Do you support sending weapons to Ukraine? The answer to that

A menacing rapprochement

Any reconciliation between Turkey and Syria’s Assad regime would have disastrous consequences for many Syrians, writes Syria expert Kristin Helberg TURKISH president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described his upcoming meeting with

Lanka accountability, rights cannot be glossed over

THE Sri Lanka government’s proposal to set up a truth and reconciliation mechanism to deal with the unresolved human rights issues of the war will get a boost in the

Plutocrats suffer vertigo on capitalism roller-coaster

THE World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders compels consideration of directions global capitalist chaos may

Walking back the Russian troll scare

RESEARCH conducted by New York University’s Centre for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behaviour on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 United States presidential election has found