Rizvi, Parwar among 6 on remand
A Dhaka magistrate court on Thursday placed six people, including main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general...
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Looming war between NATO allies
THE relations between Turkey and Greece have never been normal. The legacy of Mongol Turkish conquest of Greece in the fifteenth century poisons all connections between Turks and Greeks. The Greeks remember their Turkish oppressors like other barbarians who invaded their country. They fought hard and long to free themselves from the...
Univ teachers continue demos protesting at killings, arrests of students
Teachers of different universities, including Jahangirnagar and Rajshahi University, staged demonstrations protesting at police killings, arrests, oppression and harassment for the second consecutive day on Tuesday...
PM visits Suhrawardy hospital to meet victims of unrest
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.
Repression and propaganda
THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
Gunshots throw many lives in disarray聽
A Class IX student was sitting on a bed beside a window in Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, both legs bandaged after being bit by two bullets on...
Europe鈥檚 path to war and self-destruction
BRUSSELS is working hard to boycott Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orb谩n鈥檚 EU Council Presidency. The background: Orb谩n鈥檚 trips to Kiev, Moscow and Beijing, which were aimed at negotiating a ceasefire agreement, are infuriating EU leaders and the governments in Berlin, Paris and other capitals...
The wound will cast a long, indelible shadow
THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...
Warholm ready to rip vest open at Paris Olympics
One of the most iconic images of the Covid-delayed Tokyo Olympics was the sight of Karsten Warholm ripping open his running top after shattering the world record in winning the men's 400m hurdles gold.
IT sector faces Tk 400cr losses for internet blackout
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services on Tuesday said that the information technology business institutions, especially export-oriented technology services, were facing enormous losses every day due to the internet blackout...
Reducing waste flow to landfills
AS WE aim a smart Bangladesh by 2041, almost all urban centres, including Dhaka, grapple with significant challenges in solid waste management. Global warming, deforestation and unplanned urbanisation are exacerbating the issues, making urban living increasingly difficult...
Thousands still in shelters despite floods subsiding
Over 17,000 people remained in flood shelters, with hundreds of thousands stranded in villages in the north and north-eastern districts on Tuesday, despite subsiding floods...
NATO at war against Russia
THE imperialist war alliance NATO is already engaged in a war against Russia. The war front鈥檚 name is Ukraine...
4th anniv of death of Shajahan Siraj today
Today is the fourth anniversary of death of Shajahan Siraj, a former student leader and one of the key organisers of the War of Independence...
Kremlin warns Russia could target Europe if US deploys missiles
The Kremlin on Saturday warned that the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles in a repeat of Cold War-style confrontation...
2 more found to be directly involved in murder: DB chief
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch chief, Harun-or-Rashid, claimed on Saturday that detectives found two more suspects directly involved in murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata of India...
It鈥檚 time to say 鈥榥o鈥� to discriminatory quota
IN RECENT days, Bangladesh has seen student protests in many parts of the country, especially on university campuses. The protesting students have valid reasons to protest about a quota system that they find highly unfair and discriminatory. A whopping 30 per cent of the well-paid and massively oversubscribed Bangladesh Civil Service posts...
ASDF plants trees at Bangabhaban school
Alliance for聽 Sustainable Development Foundation, a not for profit organisation, arranged Tree Plantation and Climate Awareness Campaign-2024 at Bangahaban Government High School in Dhaka at recently aiming for making Dhaka a better place to live in...
NATO鈥檚 endgame appears nuclear war
THE world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then, however, the fear of total destruction consumed the public; today, few people seem even to be aware of this possibility...
Poet Makid Haider dies
Bangla Academy award-winning poet Makid Haider passed away on Wednesday at his residence at Uttara in the Dhaka city...
HSBC gets Asset Triple A award
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) Bangladesh has been honoured with the 鈥楤est Sub Custodian of the Year鈥� recognition at The Asset Triple A Sustainable Investing Awards 2024, according to a press release...
Punishment demanded for everyone involved in AL MP murder
Public representatives of the local government under Jhenaidah-4 constituency on Saturday demanded punishment for those involved in the killing of Awami League lawmaker...
Bongo BD to offer Farooki鈥檚 Ladies & Gentlemen
Renowned filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki鈥檚 first web series, 鈥楲adies & Gentlemen鈥� will be released on July 11 on Bangladesh鈥檚 OTT platform, Bongo, according to a press release...
Gearing up for building warships
THE Bangladesh Navy went three dimensional in 2017 with the commissioning of two Ming Class submarine from China. The navy now operates, as Wikipedia says, two submarines, five guided-missile frigates, two patrol frigates, six guided-missile聽corvettes, four missile boats, five offshore patrol vessels and other coastal patrol vessels...
鈥楲adies and Gentlemen鈥� available on digital platform
Popular director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki鈥檚 first web series titled 鈥楲adies and Gentlemen鈥� is now available on the digital platform....
Hezbollah rains 200 rockets on Israel as Gaza war rages
Lebanon鈥檚 Hezbollah launched a barrage of more than 200 rockets and drones at Israeli army positions on Thursday as tensions soared amid the almost nine-month-old war raging in Gaza...
SC summons lawyer Mohsen, journalist Kanak
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising, demeaning and maligning the judiciary of Bangladesh in a talk-show...
Hashem Khan鈥檚 84th birthday observed
The 84th birthday of the Independence Award-winning artist Hashem Khan was observed on Thursday...
Recent changes in rural body politic
CHANGES always occur in society after big phenomena like a revolution and a war. Such changes took place in Bangladesh after 1947 and 1971 when an evolution of social patterns became inevitable to keep pace with the ideology of the newly created administration. But one cannot wink at the social changes recently happening in Bangladesh...