Opinion

Biden’s ‘fumbling’ doctrine

Habib Siddiqui: FORMER US defence secretary Bob Gates wrote in his memoir, Duty, that Joe Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over

Enlightened leadership to overcome challenges

Jehan Perera: BY PROROGUING the parliament, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has given the parliamentarians, and the country at large, a reminder of the power of the presidency. There was

What future without rain, or aid?

Erik Siegl: ‘A FULL-blown famine has been narrowly averted for now, but the hunger emergency has not gone away and remains catastrophic’, declared the United Nations Office for the Coordination

What’s next for Azerbaijani blockade

Bashir Kitachayev: THE blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijani protesters claiming to be environmental activists has entered its second month, sparking a humanitarian crisis in the disputed territory and condemnation from

Gas leakage: Emphasis on awareness and publicity

Fire incidents and casualty from it are widespread in the country due to lack of awareness and publicity. To prevent any accident caused by gas leakage, everybody has to be

Quality of education

THE adage that ‘education is the backbone of a nation’ is one that we have all heard. It is central to a nation’s progress and can be thought of as

Are errors in textbooks mere mistakes?

Mofazzal Karim: Almost all common citizens of our country like me believe that Bangladesh is a Muslim majority, peaceful and non-communal country. A citizen here either Muslim or Hindu or

Speaking with forked tongues

Bruce Lerro writes on crafting linguistic propaganda by boiling, freezing and muddying language CAN language limit thought? IF A dogmatic belief system can narrow the kind of vocabulary used, can