Opinion

Ways to get bounty, abundance & blessings in life

Barakat (blessings) is a widely used term. Its literal meaning is welfare, success, stability and growth. Barakat means receiving special favour from Allah. Which means, getting special favours in some

Does Islamic extremism have a future in Bangladesh?

Afsan Chowdhury: IT IS a multi-layered question, which, therefore, has multiple answers. Extremism itself has many layers — from violent extremism to structural extremism — and, like all extremism, threatens

After Afghanistan and Iraq, they are lying about Ukraine

by Chris Hedges: The US public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war, writes Chris Hedges THE playbook the pimps of war use to lure us

Sincerity needed, not one-off steps to reconcile

Jehan Perera: THE on-going session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is proof enough that the international quest for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka is continuing. UN

The global hypocrisy of rescuing the Titan

Chloe Atkinson: RESCUE efforts to find and rescue the passengers of the Titan submersible who had ventured into the Atlantic Ocean to view the remains of the Titanic have, as

The failed Ukrainian peace deal

by Abdur Rahman: RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin, during his meeting in St. Petersburg with a delegation of African countries last week, presented the draft of an agreement which was ‘preliminarily

The half serious cold war and Taiwan

Afsan Chowdhury: WOULD Antony Blinken be visiting China if there was considerable interest to reduce the so-called rising ‘hostility’ between the two superpowers? There were not too many secretaries of

Sri Lanka: think 2048, act now

Jehan Perera: THE present stability in the country is taken as an indication that the situation is improving. The law and order, drop in inflation and absence of visible shortages,