Can Imran be his own man?
The Western press by and large has called the elections in Pakistan “staged managed”—meaning the military had a hand in it.
Dhaka: Where will it go from here?
Dhaka, once the Venice of the East by virtue of being surrounded by four ebullient rivers, is now an urban behemoth. In our university days, going home on a long vacation, we would be literally...
In apocalyptic breach of Hippocratic Oath!
Last week has been a happening spell, in an untoward sense, for the public health landscape. From Chittagong to Khulna to Rangpur, a litany of serious lapses, irregularities and unauthorised...
Of conflict of interest and public accountability
People in high places are privileged with getting away with minor indiscretions, especially in a developing country.
BNP LEADERS' INDIA TRIP
A three-man BNP delegation's visit to New Delhi on June 3-10 has raised more questions than provided answers for. This trip was led by Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, member of BNP National...
Peace anywhere seeks peace everywhere
Sir Winston Churchill, with his superbly imaginative and insightful mind, once said something like this: “Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.” That means use vitriol, threats, intimidation, even go eye...
Can't they get a better deal?
It may appear as though we are looking for a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, but believe me, it's not as funny as that. It is actually a desperate disease calling for a desperate remedy.
From a high moral ground to a high legal perch
That Bangladesh offered a safe haven to close to a million Rohingya refugees fleeing wholesale persecution from Myanmar put Dhaka on a high moral pedestal.
Stampede deaths: Martyrs of mismanagement
We are not even five days into the pall of gloom cast by the alms-giving incident at Satkania, Chittagong causing nine deaths, mostly
What is Trump up to?
The US President Donald Trump in a dramatic move has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal ahead of the deadline set for May 12. True to his hell-bent attitude to abandon the deal spearheaded by his...