Opinion

The public awaits measures to curb mob violence

With elections approaching, law enforcement agencies are already under increased pressure. The role of the police and other law enforcement bodies is crucial to ensuring a free, fair and secure

Bangladesh Army: A unique force in safeguarding world peace

Bearing the proud slogan “In war we stand, in peace we serve, everywhere for the nation,” the Bangladesh Army, born in 1971, has over time become a symbol of national

Populism and security state

POPULISM is the most hated word to the entrenched oligarchy everywhere. But once upon a time it was celebrated, cheered and replicated first in the western world and then across

Israel’s internationally enabled crime

GAZA does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides — in India,

Iran was bombed, what comes next?

ON MARCH 17, my article in New Age posed a fateful question: ‘Will Iran be bombed or have a bomb?’ It concluded that the failure of diplomacy would force a

Social media-based journalism in Bangladesh

DURING the 1990s and afterward, with the widespread introduction of computers in the media and the use of satellite TV and radio, a vast number of people have entered the

Right to return home

Suborna Akther Laboni : A MAN lost his life October 26 after a bearing pad from Dhaka Metro Rail fell from an elevated pier, another headline, another tragedy, another moment

Israel-first Jewish Americans plan

THE nature of the United States’ relationship with Israel defies logic and reason. It is a parasitic one-sided benefit, entangled in the tentacles of organised influence, manipulation, financial power, and