Opinion

Politics of Winning and Losing Elections

The peaceful election in Dhaka South and North City Corporations is surely a positive development in the electoral environment of the country. From the very onset of the electoral process

History of Irrigation Development in Bangladesh

It is assumed that agriculture in the Indian subcontinent started nine thousand years ago when people learned the technique of growing crops and domesticating wild animals. Many years later, they

New muscular militarism in a ‘dangerous world’

Marijn Hoijtink and Hanna Muehlenhoff: ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2019, incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, along with her team of nominees for commissioners, presented her ambitions for the

Johnson’s Brexit fantasies

Kenneth Surin: IMMEDIATELY after his general election victory, BoJo jetted to the private Caribbean island of Mustique with his latest mistress. Sequestered in a rental villa that cost $26,000 a

Yugoslav President in Bangladesh

A.K.M. Atiqur Rahman The President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito paid an official visit to Bangladesh from 29 January to 2 February 1974. President Mr

Essence of Credible Elections in DSCC and DNCC

Pranab Kumar Panday All eyes of the citizens have remained concentrated on the elections to the Dhaka South and North City Corporations to be held on the 1st of February.

Padma Bridge to Usher in Bangladesh’s New Economic Journey

Jayanta Ghoshal: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has done a great job. The much anticipated Padma Bridge is going to be visible as 80 percent of the work has already been

When will the winter come to an end?

ON JANUARY 17, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led the Friday prayers for the first time in eight years. He mocked the ‘American clowns’ who threatened Iran and said