Abed bhai defined a great and worthy leader as someone who always steps down to accommodate a worthier leader.
The heavy-handedness led students in Atlanta to shout, "Stop Cop City."
The city's destiny hinges on all urbanites’ collective commitment to sustainable urbanisation.
Why must our rural population always shoulder the majority of the burden?
What message are authorities sending through such leniency?
Why crack down on workers who are demanding their dues?
How comfortable is it to not have clean air to breathe?
But why is it that Bangladesh can’t independently create a legal framework that protects workers' rights?
Let’s visit this discussion on three levels of analysis on the local, national, and global scenarios and impacts.
The Blue or Indigo Mutiny of 1861, was an outpouring of anger by Indian peasants coerced into cultivating the unprofitable indigo crop by British planters.
The necessity that was felt a few days after the Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh was that of a Government which could take upon itself the burden of directing the liberation struggle.
In 1976, a mass procession led by a nearly 80-year-old peasant leader, Maulana Bhasani, from Dhaka to the Indo-Bangladesh Border drew huge attention from national and international media.
The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh responds to an editorial by The Daily Star.
There are no visible changes yet.
The trainee doctors at BSMMU have been demanding an increase of monthly allowance from Tk 20,000 to Tk 50,000 – a demand which is justified.
Dr Syeda Sultana Razia speaks to The Daily Star Opinion regarding the causes behind frequent fires and some possible solutions.
Why is there so much difference between the reality of common people and that which the government wants to see or project?
Why is the government failing to manage the market as they should?
According to family members, Rab said the 38-year-old Sultana Jasmine suffered a stroke in their custody, but her relatives insisted that she had no medical issues
Through the Liberation War of 1971, the people of this region wanted to establish a state that would not be built in the model of Pakistan. Fifty-two years later, can we say we have achieved that goal?
Decolonial pedagogy and thinking is a fundamental part of the movement for imagining an alternative future.
We are hubristically living through our ecological implosion.
Aside from posting, social media has become the go-to place for many to get their news, views and overall information, and for communicating them.
Chattogram city has thousands of years of political and cultural heritage. But there are essentially no measures in place to preserve heritage.
For the first time, there will be an Economic Partnership Agreement with a country with a major economy.
It remains to be seen what Israel does with its replenished weapons inventory.
First, is any of this even ethical? Second, how is Shein retailing clothing so cheaply?
One cannot help but note the irony of a united campaign protesting against student politics when it is obvious that student politics is very much alive on the Buet campus
This cosmic event delivered on the hype leading up to it with clockwork precision.
Government has to provide better protection to media workers