Opinion

Wed, 15 Jan 2025, 11:59 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

A Man in Forty Million Bengalis

“One wonders how God, in the process of producing forty million Bengalis, produced a man!” – This is how Tagore paid tribute to Vidyasagar shortly after his death. It was

Bangabandhu’s Interaction with World Leaders

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman left Dhaka for New York on 23 September 1974 to attend the 29th session of the UN General Assembly. He addressed the General Assembly session on

Social Stigma and Covid-19 Pandemic

Social stigma is the derogatory connection of an individual or group of people who hold common features and a particular disorder in the context of health. An epidemic can be

Operation Clean Heart: Open License to Kill at Whim

Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik: As the occurrences of extra-judicial homicide have, quite cogently, become a peak area of general discussion and scrutiny, it is apt to trace the origin of this

Association between Covid-19 Test, Test Positivity and Death

How far is it true that, the more the tests for Covid-19, the more will be the number of cases identified? We argue that the relationship is not linear or

Bangabandhu’s interaction with world leaders

It was 17 September of 1974. The 29th session of the United Nations General Assembly had just started. The session was inaugurated by the Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador,

China’s Spirit of Combating COVID-19 Pandemic

Recently, I had a catch-up phone call with my mother in China, when I realised the Mid-Autumn Day is just around the corner. Everyone in China is now back in

Wishing Sheikh Rehana Many Happy Returns of the Day!

We wish Sheikh Rehana many happy returns of the day. Happy birthday to our sister Sheikh Rehana on this day 13 September. Sheikh Rehana is the younger daughter of the

Brutality on Government Officials

I was dismayed to see the bloody face of Wahida Khanam-the UNO of GhoraghatUpazila in Dinajpur district – on social, print and electronic media in the last few days who

Indemnity Ordinance, Fifth Amendment . . . and Collective Memory

Forty five years ago this month, on 26 September 1975 to be precise, the usurper regime of Khondokar Moshtaq Ahmed promulgated the infamous Indemnity Ordinance that effectively blocked any prosecution