Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

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

THE civil society members have done the most civilised thing. They have made an appeal to the president, prime minister and the BNP chairperson for a dialogue to save this country.