Aasha Mehreen Amin
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Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.
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Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.
The vicious cycle of taking loans to pay bills and then taking another loan to pay off the first loan may continue throughout their lives, with little or no real improvement in their living standards.
Women are crazy because they set the bar ridiculously high for themselves, with no thought of self-preservation.
There is an explanation, however infuriating, to each of the delightful conundrums in public work.
AL-nominated and AL independent candidates will have enough AL supporters to represent a decent voter turnout.
We will remember the faces of the smiling Gazan children and their families in the photos—the faces of people who have been wiped out for no fault of their own.
In Dhaka, the designated streets occupied by BNP looked like a battlefield.
Phone tapping has been a favourite tool for governments around the world to snoop on people. In Bangladesh we have been familiar with this term for decades. Those of us who grew up in the "analogue phone days" can recall getting goosebumps at the sound of a click or inadvertent cough in the middle of a phone conversation that hinted that someone was listening in
If the language is too flawless and the writer unknown, if the nit-picking editor cannot put a single mark on the script, chances are that it is too good to be true.
Before jumping into the realm of artificial intelligence, we should start with some old-fashioned “common sense”
If you are ready to launder ill-gotten wealth, make sure it is in the thousands of crores – a few hundred crores is embarrassingly measly in this game of big bucks.
Let’s think of some out-of-the-box ways to tackle even the most formidable of problems.
What more will we achieve through being 'smart'?
So far, whatever the ruling party has been doing is going in favour of the BNP.
The value of a female is largely determined by what she can offer to her family and society
The bizarre and clearly communally inspired section in this year’s HSC Bangla question paper is a dangerous occurrence that could easily have been overlooked had it not been doing the rounds on social media.
My phone thinks it knows me better than I know myself – how preposterous! Or is it?
There are a litany of issues that make the lives of ordinary citizens difficult.