Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

Nothing comes from nothing” is a philosophical expression first argued by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides.

Greek historian Herodotus, living in the fifth century, couldn't have known in advance that a headmaster was going to be humiliated in Narayanganj on the second Friday of May 2016.

Both Ted Cruz and John Kasich have fallen by the wayside, while Donald Trump dashed to the finishing line of Republican Party nomination for the US presidential race in 2016.

This nation is now stupefied with horror. We're afraid of what we see but don't have the courage to see what we're afraid of. We don't always know what's right and what's wrong. But the mind is akin to someone lying in bed, changing his position. It wants to toss and turn before it goes to sleep.

Less than five years after the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from power, US president Barack Obama has made a

Ever since the Panama Papers hit the fan, the leak has been working like a series of introductions at a high-profile gathering.

For argument's sake, let's assume this country suddenly wakes up and wants to fix things. Who is going to do it? Who will decide what is right or wrong, sinful or virtuous, wise or stupid, and useful or useless?

Different people inhabit different worlds and one man's trophy is another man's trash. Jean Paul Sartre rejected Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. Hollywood actor Marlon Brando turned down the Academy Award for the Best Actor in 1973. But a heartbroken poet of this country resorted to bizarre antics last week

The governor of Bangladesh Bank has resigned, which is an appreciable act intermediate between compulsion and courage, and he

Loss of standard in many democracies has created its own double standard.

It’s understood if you have two families and hold two jobs, but not if you express two beliefs in one conversation.

Iowe him my first job, the memo-writing skills, the vast concourse of discourses on virtually everything on earth, and roughly half the

One thing constant in the varying nature of killing children is how ruthlessly a life is nipped in the bud. Be it infanticide, prolicide or paedocide, that nipping is shocking no matter who does it and how it's done.

Sixty-nine lawsuits to date have been filed against one man that makes this great country look like a giant incubator for witch hunters. All the war criminals are being tried by two tribunals, whereas courts after courts are being engaged to drag a decent man from pillar to post.

We need to understand who is right and who is wrong as well as how to go about it in the future. Law can't be an ad hoc thing, and it shouldn't be a coat one has to cut according to one's cloth.

If the dawn of democracy arrived in Athens 2,500 years ago, how has its day progressed in as many years?

Hussain Muhammad Ershad never retired from politics because he never got tired of it.

From the look of things, it appears that the policemen in Bangladesh are drawing inspiration from the homeopath's guide to potency and dosage.

Scientists have claimed that in next five to ten years they are going to invent the cloak of invisibility.

In his farewell address in 1796, the first US president George Washington warned against the influence of attachment of one nation for another.