Opinion

Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 05:10 pm

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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

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Tatmadaw, ARSA, Arakan army, Yaba economy

BANGLADESH is in a spot as far as Myanmar is concerned. Not that Myanmar is doing much better having to fight just about every ethnic group in the country. Given

Climate crisis, GDP and working people — III

IDENTIFYING the GDP’s limitations help find the losses the working people have to make, untold yet, due to climate crisis, although it’s the working people that bear the most. The

Climate crisis, GDP and working people – II

AS IS known, the gross domestic product, dating back to the 1930s, and innovated by Simon Kuznets, appraises the value of goods and services produced in an economy in a

Remember victims of Britain’s monarchy, empire

WHAT is the federal government asking us to commemorate when it declares next Monday a holiday to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s death? Monarchy? Empire? Colonialism? Class rule? Genetic determination? Unquestioned

Resource-rich, but poor

AHUNNA Eziakonwa, Director, United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa, in her recent blog asked, ‘Why is the continent with 60 per cent of the world’s arable land unable

Monarchs belong in dustbin of history

THE fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the

Challenges of approaching Santal governance system

MD MOTIUR Rahman and his research team deserve accolades for their work, ‘Customary Institutions, Judiciary Structure and the Laws of Santal: Contemporary Challenge and Reality’. A book published by the

Pakistan’s climate catastrophe

The inaction of developed countries could cost us the world, writes Robert Sandford MONSOON flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening. A distinguishing feature

Standard Arabic, Darija, French or English?

A conflict rooted in identity is currently gaining traction in Morocco. It began with demands to relieve the ‘burden’ of Fusha (classical Arabic) by implementing a linguistic ‘shift’, thus allowing

The historic collapse of journalism

I HAVE never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It was a lengthy