Opinion

Serendipity once again?

A new year waits on the other side of tonight. The year 2020 is going through the last minute dress rehearsal to appear with the usual glitz and glam when the clocks will strike 12 midnight. After the unpredictable 2019, it is hoped that the year 2020 will be a year of calm and peace. Or will it be ...

Opinion

Witnessing Victory on Dhaka Narshingdi road

I have had the privilege of witnessing some small battles and then the final push for Victory from various locations on the Dhaka Narshingdi road during the nine-month long liberation war. Some families had taken shelter in some remote villages under Araihazar thana and from our hideouts we had watc...

Opinion

PM’s aphorism smacks of reality

When Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the tendency to earn unlimited wealth is but a kind of sickness of the mind, she could not have been closer to the truth. Only a person who stands on a strong moral ground can come up with such a brusque comment. No doubt psychologists would agree with her...

Opinion

Ghosts of anti liberation forces active

Failing to tackle the forward march of the government, the defeated forces of 1971 have now taken the strat­egy of disru­pting the essential commodity market across the country.  They believe that if the masses, who live on a tight budget, are made to suffer on a daily basis through esc...

All Section,Education & Culture

Story of an intimate arts space

When you are in Chattogram, and you have nothing better to do after the day-long seminar, you wonder how you could pass the idle time till dinner. You have seen the Patenga Sea Beach a number of times; you have been to the markets to buy some foreign goods. It is at such times of impending boredom y...

Opinion

Our profound respect to four national leaders

Dateline 3 November 1975. The chill of the winter morn increased many fold when the people heard the news of the brutal murder of four front ranking national leaders namely, Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, Capt. M.Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman inside Dhaka Central Jail by the same group of army...

Special Supplement

Russel’s innocent eyes seek justice

We have heard of the English phrase ‘Nip in the bud,’ a metaphoric expression, that means  something destroyed before it could fully bloom, like a flower. It also means someone whose life has been cut short by some twist of fate before it could mature to full potential. The sto...

Opinion

‘Samrat’ is no more king now

The crown of ‘Samrat’ of casino  and gambling has been taken away by the law enforcers. After playing cat and mouse game for days, they flushed Ismail Hossain Samrat, Jubo League Dhaka South unit's president, out of a rat hole and handcuffed him like a commoner and sent him to j...

Opinion

Durga in other civilisations

The characteristics and persona of goddess Durga of the Hindu community as we see in Bengal can be found in similar other goddesses like Ishatar and Inanna of ancient Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Babylon or Sumer.  This female deity was of highest order and revered by the people of the time. It was c...

Special Supplement

Born to lead from the front

Sheikh Hasina is now considered by the world community as one of the strongest female political leaders of the world. In fact she ranks among the top five women leaders of the past and present. The world community has watched her grow as a politician in last 20 years and her ability to undertake var...

Opinion

PM’s message is clear and final

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s message implies that no one is beyond the laws of the land.   She has taken a bold and time befitting step to go against the godfathers of corruption and their operatives in the country. A number of them have already been arrested and many more are repo...

Opinion

Tsunami shakes the underworld

The ongo­ing drive agai­nst the ext­remely corrupt elements in the underworld who have been runn­ing illegal casi­nos, gamb­ling dens, liquor stocking, yaba trading and arms dealing, has hit them like a big tsunami to say the least.Law enforcers, imbibed with the ‘zero ...

Opinion

We need more souls like Dr. Ibrahim

I met Prof. Dr. Md. Ibrahim when he was toying with the idea of establishing a diabetes research centre in Dhaka in a small scale. Those days I was working for The Pulse, a medical weekly, owned and edited by late Anwarul Islam Bobby. Dr Ibrahim was a busy man so it took some persuasion on the part ...

Opinion

BNP riddled with paradoxes

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is observing 41 years of its coming into being. Long years if juxtaposed with the age of this republic named Bangladesh. The party came to power on three occasions and left behind an indelible legacy of misrule, mismanagement, immaturity, irresponsibility, conspira...

National,Front Page

Resolve Rohingya issue

The desperation in the voice of our foreign minister while briefing foreign diplomats in Dhaka on Thursday shows how serious Bangladesh is to settle the Rohingya repatriation issue once and for all. He presented before them the precarious situation that has evolved in the last two years since the fi...

National,Front Page

Evil souls orchestrated the massacre

When we look back upon the 21 August grenade attack in its totality we come up with the conclusion that only persons with darkest of souls can give consent to a massacre of such devilish dimension. On that fateful afternoon, demons of hell had crept out of their accursed tombs to gorge on human bloo...

National,Front Page

Food adulteration unabated

A couple of days back a television channel was telecasting an investigative report on a factory producing and marketing milk and curd made without using milk as raw material! This may sound strange but it is the truth. It was located on Dhaka Narshingdi road. For long nine (9) years the factory has ...

National,Front Page

Mujib: Larger than life leader

He was compared with the Himalayas. He was called the Poet of Politics. He is called the Father of the Nation. He is called Bangabandhu – friend of Bengal. He is known as the architect of Bangladesh. A big leader of a small country, he walked tall amongst top world leaders of his time.  ...

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Remembering Sheikh Kamal

Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a legendary figure in sports and cultural arena of Bangladesh, was a progressive leader who fought a tremendous battle against the erstwhile socio-democratic and cultural backwardness as a student leader o...

Opinion

Create friendly environment for doing business

Before the last December election, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had said that if elected to power her government would implement the policy of simplifying the procedures of setting up business ventures, especially for foreign investors.The steps suggested would help remove the current bottlenecks th...