Opinion

Are Tarique Rahman, BNP above law?

A question rattles in my mind as to whether BNP’s convicted acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his party have any impunity. Reason behind the question is that some political leaders

Government’s fear of losing control

Jehan Perera: RANIL Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan president, has announced that he will convene a meeting with all political parties to decide on the implementation of the 13th Amendment in full

What Manipur is witnessing today

Subhash Gatade: DECADES are a short time in a nation’s journey. The sexual assault on three Kuki-Zo women and their being paraded naked by a frenzied mob in Manipur with

Israeli documentary ‘1948: Remember, Remember Not’

SEVERAL years ago, Israeli state TV invited tenders for a film project about 1948 to mark the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the state. The commission was won by

Free press, propaganda and Censorship

Paul Larudee In war, truth is the first casualty. — Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC) HOW many of us learn about Russia from a

Multipolar manoeuvring in Indo-Pacific

Amid growing trade and economic cooperation in the region, MK Bhadrakumar looks at how smaller countries there are trying to steer clear of Washington’s attempts to cause friction between them and China

Speeding up Lanka recovery needs consistency

Jehan Perera: IT HAS now been over four months since the local government elections were postponed by the government on grounds of financial debility. For the first time ever, an

NATO is a warfare alliance

Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd write that it is not a force for global peace or stability AT HIS speech during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, president Biden called the US and Europe