Opinion
The demand for a caretaker government has turned into a political hoax in Bangladesh. Normally in a democracy the party in power holds election through the formation of Election Commission (EC). The EC is the real authority to hold a free and fair election. In the process to form the EC through...
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It is admitted by all, that had there been no Bangabandhu there would have been no Bangladesh. He fought for 23 years to make us free. He declared his six-point programme that consolidated the entire nation like a rock and won the 1970 election with an overwhelming majority paving the way for the wa...
Those who killed Major Zia at Chittagong circuit house burned his dead body with petrol. They not only killed him but also destroyed his body out of personal aggrandizement. It is a fact that Zia’s coffin was brought from Chittagong only to hoodwink the people who came from different areas to ...
The opposition leaders including Mirza Fakhrul, Mahamudur Rahman Manna and Tarique Rahman have long been criticizing the government using filthy and abusive language. Most of the charges that they bring against the government publicly are fabricated. They never talk about the economic developme...
The heinous August 21 grenade attack on the Awami League public meeting in front of the party (AL) office at Bangabandhu Avenue was nothing but the continuation of political process practiced by BNP and its associates i.e., the anti-liberation forces who were involved in the killing of the best Beng...
At last the Afghan mujahideen have triumphed following the withdrawal of the US forces. Their victory may not be seen as the victory of the people and democracy. They have been trying for long 20 years to establish Afghanistan as a religious state. No doubt the fundamentalists and militants are happ...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proved that socialism can be established through votes in parliament. Socio-political changes brought about by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were unique indeed. The aim was to transform the society by establishing socialism in a democratic way and make it functi...
August 15, 1975 was the blackest day when the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu was brutally and barbarically assassinated by the anti-liberation fundamentalist forces. Sheikh Mujib in fact is the greatest son of the soil that the country has ever produced. Now the question is who killed Sheikh Mujib...
If by Father of the Nation we mean Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib, then Begum Fazilatunnessa Mujib is obviously the mother. It is not because that she is Begum Mujib, not because she became the first lady, but because of her personal contribution to the nation and love for the people that made her Bangama...
Following the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, the country fell into the hands of those who were anti-people and anti-independence. General Zia was the architect of their evil politics. He was a registered freedom fighter with no commitm...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has asked her cabinet members, the elected members of parliament (MPs) and other bodies to reach food to the people who are hungry especially those who live from hand to mouth i.e. the day laborers who earn on daily basis to meet family expenses. The Prime Minister feel...
Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been running the state affairs for 12 and half years continuously. Undoubtedly the period of governance is a long one. Some people think that there should be a change in governance. But the outstandi...
The Six-point programme declared by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a meeting of the opposition parties of Pakistan was in fact a magna carte for the people of East Pakisan. Although the meeting was called for national issue, Sheikh Mujib declared the Six-point programme in that occasion. The a...
The size of the ensuing budget (FY 2021-22) to be declared in the parliament on June 3 is expected to be over Tk. 6 lakhs crore i.e., 6.14 percent higher than the original budget of Tk. 568,000 crore for the current year. It is learnt that keeping in mind the possible impacts of the second wave of C...
The return of Sheikh Hasina, daughter of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on May 17, 1981 six years after her stay in foreign country following the assassination of Bangabandhu was a glorious issue for the people of Bangladesh. She and her sister Sheikh Rehana could escape ...
Mamata Banerjee is back to power again. She has taken oath as Chief Minister of West Bengal for a third term after leading her party to a landslide victory. Her party Trinomool Congress has defeated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress-CPM alliance. Our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has exte...
The devastating coronavirus probably has made its worst strike in our country. It is still under control, but what is happening in the next door i.e., India? Tragic scene is observed in all over the country. Coronavirus patients have been residing on roads. The bodies are being found on roads in man...
Bangladesh has been witnessing a sudden spike in Covid cases since early March. Both the death and infection rate have been increasing substantially every day. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from the very beginning tried to make our people aware about Covid-19 pandemic and about the emergen...
Those who state that the elected members of Awami League fled away leaving behind the people to secure their lives should be challenged by fact. They formed a revolutionary government at Mujinagar and conducted the Liberation War to free the country and its people. It is learnt that India helpe...
What has been happening in Myanmar is a threat to peace and security of that country. The United Nations is not silent but sanction of that kind that is practiced today is not enough to compensate the inhuman brutal acts that the Myanmar army has been committing against its people. Decades after dec...
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