An entertaining critique on our T-20 campaign
Given the high passion aroused by India-Pakistan matches, one might have expected a slice of that rivalry to radiate through some kind of a cheer for Bangladesh struggling through an uphill chase of a big Pakistani total. Again that was not to be!
31 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Reflections on March 1971
Usually, the first hudred days of parliamentary election
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Gambling with the sweat of our workers' brow!
We are doing a postmortem on the sensational cyber crime that has depleted us of Tk 800 crore in foreign exchange from the reserve
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
A classy win at a height and more
The early success should act as tonic for the Bangladesh team which they need, especially in the nippy weather of Dharmashala to face Ireland, a good team, and Oman which has defeated the former in a two-run stunner.
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Hail the Midas touch on national cricket!
Bangladesh's jinx over the highly popular T-20 format cricket has disappeared in a flash as if in a comic strip to put it picturesquely.
3 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Indian victory largely scripted by luck
The backdrop was dramatic, full of expectancy for the growing numbers of cricket-lovers in the country – almost to a last man...
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Truth making itself felt
The beehive mentality of surpassing each other in ingratiating themselves with the higher ups, if not checked, may hold the system to ransom.
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Passports ranking, IS' mapping and us
The up-scaling of the passport is indicative of the country's potentiality as a vibrant investment destination. We must build up on the image, and not allow it to be chipped away by any indiscretion whatsoever...
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM
From the crossroads to the highway
When I joined The Daily Star in mid-December 1993, a few months after the sudden and sad demise of the Founding Editor S. M. Ali, I was struck by the organisation's attention to detail and the starry-eyed philosophy behind it.
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM
From the frying pan to the fire?
If the last two centuries were of inconclusive and asymmetrical globalisation, the present one deserves to be called the century of migration.
28 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Ershad, still an unspent political force
Whatever may be his infamy, flippancy and punching above his weight in the eye of his critics, H. M. Ershad hardly seems ready for his swan song.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Sloshing oil, slapping bouts, our interests
While maxi-oil wars are playing out in the Middle East and North Africa we have our mini version of an oil battle to be won at home.
7 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Embargo, Islamophobia and neo-fascist retreat
Abolt from the blue has hit Bangladesh as if we didn't have a plateful on our hands already: SMS threats to some Christian bishops as
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Help is around the corner, court it and benefit
There's a sigh of relief breezing through the country's 18 million internet users over the unblocking of the social media sites the
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Missiles, politics and cascading effects
If there is a generic confusion at the top in terms of decision-making to fight fundamentalism of all hues and stripes this will have a cascading effect on to the bottom.
3 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Mini national polls, mighty excitement in store
The schedules for polls to the 234 municipalities are upon us, as if tip-toeing on a slippery wicket to a sudden grand curtain raiser about to happen.
26 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Who's taking the brunt of the backlash?
The IS nicknamed Daesh, an Arabic word meaning a group of bigots imposing their will on others not only killed innocents but also put majority of Muslims on the harm's way by giving Islam a bad name.
19 November 2015, 18:00 PM
The answer is with us
Frankly, who is not mentally carrying a travel advisory of his or her own seems to be the question today.
5 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Arguments you cannot brush aside
The operative words are extremism and terrorism; so what's in a name, terrorism is terrorism. The threats have always been there and to be fair to ourselves some of the major terrorist acts have not seen handing out of convictions to the perpetrators.
29 October 2015, 18:00 PM
LET THERE BE LIGHT
The see-saw between the government of Bangladesh and the Western diplomatic community over threats to foreigners' lives shows no sign of remission...
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM