Digital Features Coordinator at The Daily Star
For an outside observer, it must be baffling that the BNP, having witnessed what the actions of the last 15 years did to the Awami League in three short weeks this summer, never even considered the fact that if they didn’t play fast and loose with people’s precious time like Sheikh Hasina used to, it would set a nice contrast in the minds of voters and the young generation.
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The number of different electoral systems around the world is testament to the complex nature of democracy
The most important details for outsiders to understand is that the United States of America is a federal state, made up of 50 states.
Anyone familiar with the previous “elections” held between 2014 and 2024 will know that it is virtually impossible these spending caps were adhered to, despite parties’ claims of compliance on paper.
Politicians need to start understanding that the loud, unnecessary, intrusive politics that we know today needs to become the politics of the past.
We can have a national cricket team who can do it all. The win in Rawalpindi is an indication of it.
Even if history is not consistent with what the youth have been taught, it doesn't explain the disdain with which many have treated his memory
Transportation is everything. It needs to be fixed.
Some people are good at time management, some people are bad at it, some people would be late to their own funerals.
Understanding Bangladesh’s politics, and how students constantly shape it with their voice and activism is a difficult prospect.
I would have been five years old the first time I played chess.
Commentary transcends into a place where it sprinkles the power of words over the raw emotional journey of live sports.
We rebuilt a country, we were set back time and again.
Football’s claim to being the global sport has strong merits.
“Excellent! Come downstairs, we’re waiting for you.”
Many point to a lack of commercial involvement in women’s sports as a reason behind this pay gap.
Celebrate Lalon Shah on his 132nd death anniversary.