Opinion

Thu, 23 Jan 2025, 12:21 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

Modi opponents labelled ‘anti-national’

Aggressive propaganda is increasingly distorting public debate in India. Government agencies tolerate and sometimes even promote prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu chauvinism. Those daring to criticise the government face intimidation,

Decolonising bookshelf isn’t getting rid of Jane Austen

THE headline in the Daily Telegraph was stark: ‘Jane Austen dropped from university’s English course to “decolonise the curriculum”’. The story was quickly picked up elsewhere. Austen had been ‘cancelled’

France stuck in extreme centre

After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist centre’s unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously ‘extreme’, writes Diana Johnstone ON APRIL 24, Emmanuel Macron was

Who is the hero? Albright v Assange

Lawrence Davidson checks on the answer, from inside and outside the establishment OUR image of a hero has two aspects. The first consists of generic, stereotypical traits: bravery, determination in the

Sri Lanka: the way forward

SINCE the Anuradhapura period, Sri Lanka has long held the status of a major trading epicentre given its accessibility because of its geographical location and available infrastructure. The country’s trade

Civilian deaths of US war on terror

MADOGAZ Musa Abdullah still remembers the phone call. But what came next was a blur. He drove for hours, deep into the Libyan desert, speeding towards the border with Algeria.

Ticket seekers suffer terribly: Night-long Wait at Kamalapur Railway Station

Touhidul Islam, a resident of Araihazar in Narayanganj, came to Kamalapur railway station in the capital on Sunday noon to collect advance train tickets for a Rngpur-bound train. “I stood

Ukraine is pawn on grand chessboard

ZBIGNIEW Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard was published 25 years ago. His assumptions and strategies for maintaining US global dominance have been hugely influential in US foreign policy. As the

The universality of Ukraine

THE Russian war in Ukraine has dominated headlines in the United States and Europe. It has been presented as a generation-defining event and as a pivot in geopolitics that will

Rohingyas: media messaging, policies need to change

WITHOUT a doubt, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, did the right thing in September 2017 by granting protection to the Rohingya Muslim minority arriving in Bangladesh. The refugees and forced