Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

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The ultimate tragedy will strike if people become withdrawn.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

GOD knows what madness came upon the Indian Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on April 1, the day he instructed his BSF men to put a complete halt to the smuggling of cattle to Bangladesh.

JENNIFER Jacquet writes in her book “Is Shame Necessary?

The brain is connected to the body in a crisscross fashion. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side controls the left.

In a little over hundred years, roughly 180 countries have ceased to exist.

AMERICAN basketball coach Pat Riley mapped out the terrain in the following words. He said it starts with a nobody, who becomes an upstart, who becomes a contender.

US president Abraham Lincoln once elaborated on the dangers facing the Americans. He said some trans-Atlantic military wasn't going to crush them with a blow. Nor all the armies of Europe and Asia “could by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.” He then said if destruction was the lot of the Americans, it must be them who will be its author and finisher. As a nation, he concluded, the Americans will either live as free men forever or die by suicide.

THE cultural activists in the country did their bit last Sunday when they accompanied the families of those who had died in political violence and hung a list of 54 victims in front of BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.

While HSBC in recent years has repeatedly scandalised itself with shocking skeletons tumbling out of its cloistered closet, its chief executive Stuart Gulliver lately said that the bank has sometimes failed to live up to the standards expected of it. It wasn't a pro bono