Badiuzzaman Bay | The Daily Star

  • Badiuzzaman Bay

    The writer is a member of the editorial team at The Daily Star.

  • ‘Agartala case provided a spark for our dream of independence’

    Amanullah is a former Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and former Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS).

  • ‘Mass uprising was a dress rehearsal for our brightest achievements’

    January 24 is observed as the Mass Uprising Day. On this day in 1969, young school student Matiur Rahman and a rickshaw puller were shot down by police on the streets of Dhaka, giving further momentum to the movement to remove the Ayub Khan regime from power.

  • What’s Eating Quader Mirza?

    How well do you follow the headlines of your newspapers? If one were to run a quiz to see how well the readers of The Daily Star stack up against each other, the question that is most likely to be at the top of the list would be about the name that appeared most in the headlines of our central pages over the last week.

  • Rifle, Roti, Aurat: The first novel on the Liberation War

    Dawn broke in Bangladesh. Shudipto is an early riser, and today was no exception. But it could have been. He didn’t sleep much last night.
  • Corruption tracking

    ‘Corruption has spread over the whole society’

    Dr Iftekharuzzaman is Executive Director, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). In this interview with Badiuzzaman Bay of The Daily Star, he talks about distinctive features of corruption in Bangladesh, the role of the ACC, the government’s anti-corruption drive, and ways to curb systemic corruption.
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