Campus safe, no question about it
The High Court yesterday stayed the ban on student politics at Buet when the students were demanding that the campus be free from politics.
3w ago
Ten years delay in oil-gas exploration a testament to short-sightedness and ineptitude
Bangladesh’s gas cannot be exported—this must be a properly documented red-line condition.
1m ago
Could BNP have avoided violence on Oct 28?
Had the BNP leadership stayed more alert, maybe the violence could have been averted to some extent, if not entirely.
5m ago
4 crore have European purchasing power, but what of the rest?
There was a time when meat from two cows used to be sold every day at a certain market in Gazipur. Over the last year, the sales have reduced by half. Sellers say there are now very few buyers
6m ago
Don’t Palestinians deserve a life worth living?
The world is going through some cruel times. Not that such inhumanity had not occurred before -- the first and second world wars, and Hitler's holocaust of the Jewish people are among mankind's darkest chapters
6m ago
Will shutting everything down solve the problems?
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has completed 15 years in her current role – an unprecedented feat by a head of government or state in our country
6m ago
The passing of the ‘mystery man’ in politics
He was more of a fictional character than a real person. Most of our countrymen never saw him; they only heard stories about him.
10m ago
A fighter till the end
Despite his failing health, Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury was more active and hard-working than many healthy persons. Death had knocked on his door several times before. But he kept death away and survived miraculously.
1y ago
March 25, 2023
SCBA Election: ‘We don’t even consider it an election’
TDS: Why did so many incidents happen during the Supreme Court Bar Association polls this year?
March 23, 2023
A model election?
Seeing what happened during the SCBA election, one cannot help but wonder about what might happen in the upcoming general election.
March 16, 2023
'Never saw police enter SC and attack people, not even during military rule'
Noted Supreme Court Lawyer ZI Khan Panna today said he was ashamed of the scenes that unfolded during the Supreme Court Bar Association elections yesterday, when police assaulted journalists and pro-BNP lawyers inside the premises of the country's apex judicial body.
March 13, 2023
Where are the hajj pilgrims?
What’s causing the slow enrolment into hajj packages this year?
March 2, 2023
Could the President have done more during his tenure?
Despite his limited authority, President Hamid had the opportunities to do certain things and say certain things, but he did not.
February 27, 2023
Ministers making conflicting remarks on Khaleda to divert focus: Fakhrul
The main purpose of various ministers’ conflicting statements about whether BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia could engage in politics was to divert attention from BNP’s ongoing movement, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today.
February 20, 2023
Did the IU authorities take BCL assaulters’ side?
When will BCL’s torture of common students stop?
February 13, 2023
‘Don’t you dare name any names’
A mere “questioning” sent two of those students to the ICU. The ordeal didn’t end there. BCL leaders and activists forcibly entered the ICU and threatened the two ailing students. They said, “You are comfortable here [in the ICU]. We didn’t beat you much, and yet you are creating drama out of it. Don’t you dare name any names”
February 2, 2023
‘We are doing well’
This shouldn’t have been a mere political statement; it should have been the reality. But the current government policies are not in line with that goal.
January 25, 2023
‘Special train’ for Awami League, ‘transport strike’ for BNP
Why should two political parties of the same nation receive polar opposite treatments?
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