Opinion

Why is Bangladesh a death trap for children today?

Have we completely forgotten these lines from poet Sukanta Bhattacharya’s poem Chharpatra (The Clearance)? In this country now, children are the most unprotected and unsafe. On one hand, the procession

A Dissection of an Interview

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, currently living in self-imposed exile in India, has said in an email interview with Hindustan Times that she will return to Bangladesh “very soon”. Bangladesh,

Begum Zia family’s arrest masterminded by Moti-Mahfuz: Masud reveals during remand

The arrest of Begum Khaleda Zia, her son and current Prime Minister and BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman, and another son Arafat Rahman Koko during the One-Eleven (1/11) regime was carried

Economy, trade and investment hit by ineffective monetary policy

The public mood is extremely fragile at present. In reality, it is the worsening state of people’s finances that is intensifying their frustration. In particular, people have become deeply distressed

If Scientists Neglected Today, Nation to Suffer Tomorrow

Agriculture is the lifeblood of Bangladesh. The country’s agriculture has made a lot of progress in the production of rice, potato, maize jute, vegetables, fisheries, livestock, poultry and so on.

Yunus’s wealth, deception and fraud

Prof Muhammad Yunus is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He has served as the chief adviser to the interim government for a year and a half. Yet, overshadowing everything else,

Silence, Leadership, Disease and the Strange Politics of Our Time

1. The Sound Hidden Inside Silence In politics, sometimes the loudest statement comes through saying nothing at all. Our time feels exactly like that. Everyone is talking, yet very few

The ungovernable country? Why Britain keeps losing prime ministers

They were times in which prime ministers seemed to be on their way out as soon as they’d arrived. The big strategic decisions the country faced were ducked or postponed.