Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

The investigation into the Basic Bank fraud is the latest example of that twist of irony. A former managing director, other officials and a host of borrowers of the bank have been indicted.

In a nutshell, we're influencing education more than education is influencing us. Compared to an aircraft, fake diplomas, superficial learning, material pursuit and contempt for conscience have switched it from headwind to tailwind.

If there's a loving woman behind every successful man, there is a moving idea behind every fruitful action. Victor Hugo said that no army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

A revolution can either explode or implode, but it can't do both. The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Chinese Revolution exploded when the rage of people shattered old regimes and installed new ones.

The killers are pathetically mixed up in their minds. They're alarmingly oblivious that destroying human life is criminal offense, not God's work. They deserve utmost condemnation and the highest possible punishment.

The question whether IS has been more brutal than the US is ever more relevant now than before. If the beheading part is excluded and killing is viewed as a contest, the US would far exceed its adversary by sheer number and ruthlessness.

Crime likens to math in the sense that some problems take longer time to solve, while many also remain hopelessly unresolved.

Once I gave money to a costumed intellectual, whose intellect subsequently proved more conspicuous in his costume than anywhere else.

Might is right, and that ugly truth once again confronted us after a teenager was tortured and killed in Sylhet by atrocious adults.

The chief justice of Bangladesh has recently assured us that the judiciary, like any other public institution, could be fairly criticised.

Compared to the year before, over 36 percent money went from Bangladesh to Swiss banks last year, but that's not half as shocking as the reasons given by our experts to explain that surge.

Sports and politics have collided throughout history, but there are also examples of collaboration between them. South African president Nelson Mandela used rugby to heal the racial tension that divided the blacks and the whites in his country.

Dhaka City Corpor-ation has been divided into two halves, but each one of its problems remain the same, if not worse.

Strong nations are strong because they are tough on soft issues. On May 28, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologised in the Diet for his rude outburst.

While he was talking to an Indian daily last Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared the Land Boundary Agreement

AS many as 8,000 refugees have been adrift in the Andaman Sea lately, some of them stranded for more than two months.

Nothing of what happened to Rip Van Winkle has happened to Salahuddin Ahmed.

One by one elected mayors are being suspended with the urgency of an automobile company recalling its defective cars.

The ultimate tragedy will strike if people become withdrawn. It will no longer matter who wins or loses any of the many elections.

THE centre of gravity shifts every few years. The shattered buildings look like real estate displays as if walls and roofs were