WINKERS AWEIGH!
Tanim Ahmed is digital editor at The Daily Star.
The recent fighter jet crash at a school campus in Dhaka has led many to question the wisdom of running an airbase in Kurmitola and conducting training flights from there.
It was just about 7:00am on Monday. A mother sat with her daughter at a bus counter in Dinajpur, set for a two-hour commute to Rangpur for the daughter’s HSC exam three hours later.
On days like this we look for things to blame, people to accuse
The chief adviser's press wing goes on to assert that the official crime statistics from September 2024 to June 2025 do not "completely" support the claim that crime is sharply rising this year.
Jamaat members still hero-worship their past leaders, who stood against Bangladesh.
Neither Tarique's spirit, nor Fakhrul's wisdom appear to be percolating down to the grassroots of their party
It was evident on March 26 how political parties do not dither to propagate alternative narratives of our independence and the 1971 Liberation War purely for expediency.
It is becoming difficult to say whether the government is trying to run a country in earnest or just playing house
The recent fighter jet crash at a school campus in Dhaka has led many to question the wisdom of running an airbase in Kurmitola and conducting training flights from there.
It was just about 7:00am on Monday. A mother sat with her daughter at a bus counter in Dinajpur, set for a two-hour commute to Rangpur for the daughter’s HSC exam three hours later.
On days like this we look for things to blame, people to accuse
The chief adviser's press wing goes on to assert that the official crime statistics from September 2024 to June 2025 do not "completely" support the claim that crime is sharply rising this year.
Jamaat members still hero-worship their past leaders, who stood against Bangladesh.
Neither Tarique's spirit, nor Fakhrul's wisdom appear to be percolating down to the grassroots of their party
It was evident on March 26 how political parties do not dither to propagate alternative narratives of our independence and the 1971 Liberation War purely for expediency.
It is becoming difficult to say whether the government is trying to run a country in earnest or just playing house
In the immediate aftermath of the changeover on the August 5, the police were nowhere to be seen.
The call for a second republic and a new constitution has never been louder