Opinion

Sat, 12 Apr 2025, 02:42 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

Assange is free: what he’s given us

Contrary to US government claims, WikiLeaks’ revelations actually saved lives — and drove demand for accountability from Washington, writes Marjorie Cohn AFTER a 14-year struggle, including five years spent in Belmarsh,

Kind govt reaction needed to Lanka economic distress

The economic life of the people will not change either immediately or even in the short term, except marginally through changes in the controlled price of some commodities, writes Jehan Perera

What kind of peaceful settlement Turkey favours?

‘A BAD peace is better than a good war,’ so says a Russian proverb. ‘If the Turks speak of peace, prepare for war,’ so says a Greek proverb. So, what

Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie

WHEN you’re in Gaza and see the destruction firsthand, the clearest conclusion is that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie, on a par with ‘a people without a land

Old mole comes back

Loyal communists and virulent anti-communists were often cut from the same cloth. They occasionally talked much the same talk, only from opposite sides of the barricades. The more the ex-reds

Pakistan’s quest for political transformation

AS THE economy begins to matter more and more, Pakistan — the sixth-largest country in the world in terms of population — is in dire condition. With a debt-to-GDP ratio

British-Israeli soldiers in war-crimes zone

BRITISH nationals are serving in some of Israel’s ‘craziest’ combat units in Gaza where they view Palestinian fighters as ‘rats’ and ‘animals’. The soldiers have pledged to ‘kill these sons

At the edge of apocalypse

There is a significant denialism on climate change in places like the United States. And it angers me because I see people affected. I see animals affected. And this is

Understanding Iran’s ‘offensive-defensive’ strategy

THIS spring, Iran’s unprecedented direct military tit-for-tat escalation against its regional arch-foe Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war was accompanied by a deteriorating domestic landscape marked by higher repression and

Global crackdown on freedom of expression

ACCORDING to a 2022 report by Article 19, an international organisation that documents and champions freedom of expression, 80 per cent of the world’s population lives with less freedom of