BNP’s adversarial politics hurts more because it was expected to lead a new culture of politics.
Should we continue to condone unregulated public outbursts?
Protecting our citizens and our border integrity is non-negotiable
For all its pro-reform posturing, BNP has yet to signal a real willingness to lead political reforms, including within itself.
Bangabandhu as a subject of study should be approached with an openness to embrace truths, however unflattering.
Let's delve into the hypothetical lifelines in a public servant’s career that help them indulge in corruption.
Animals in Bangladesh are losing their homes because people are taking over their spaces.
Budget day is turning into our very own Groundhog Day.
Twenty-eight years is a long time to wait. It takes a lot of sitting, sweating and soul-searching to do to get through it, a lot of courage to start again once it’s over, and a lot of catching up to do as a new phase begins under a different sky and far different circumstances.
Like all things bad and ugly in Bangladesh, the latest offensive against our sanity is playing out in a wearily predictable fashion.
As of July 23, seven people died and at least 35 were injured in mob beatings sparked off by a rumour about human heads being collected—yes, you heard it right—for the construction of Padma Bridge, the dream project of the Awami League government.
On April 17, 1971, in the midst of a genocidal operation by the Pakistani forces, a quiet voice of sanity reminded the world what was at stake, and went on to lay the groundwork for an independent Bangladesh.
Of all the dysfunctions that plague life in Bangladesh today, none is perhaps more pernicious than the transport sector. Just consider the fact that an average of 20 lives is lost to road accidents every day.
The 2019 Indian general election, which will have its third round of polling today, is proving to be as challenging as predicted.
We launched the quota movement on February 17. It lasted for nearly eight months, until October 4 when the public administration ministry issued a circular officially scrapping the quota system.
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has recently decided to discontinue exams at grades 1-3, which means students of those classes will no longer have to sit for formal exams. How do you see this development?
The March 11 election to Ducsu, or Dhaka University Central Students' Union, marks a moment in the history of student politics that is
One more day and it's election time for the northern part of the capital city. Residents of the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will choose their mayor for the second time in four years since the first mayoral election of a bifurcated Dhaka was held in 2015.
