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Shamsuddoza Sajen

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‘The Fourth Estate will not survive unless defended’

Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, authors of Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (2025), discuss how governments worldwide manipulate the media, reshape public perception, and construct competing realities in an age of digital disinformation. The interview was conducted by Shamsuddoza Sajen of The Daily Star.
2 November 2025, 05:00 AM
2 November 2025, 05:00 AM
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‘The Fourth Estate will not survive unless defended’

Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, authors of Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (2025), discuss how governments worldwide manipulate the media, reshape public perception, and construct competing realities in an age of digital disinformation. The interview was conducted by Shamsuddoza Sajen of The Daily Star.
2 November 2025, 05:00 AM
2 November 2025, 05:00 AM
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Reading power: How everyday texts shaped life under the British Empire

At the heart of Required Reading are forgotten readers from the past.
28 October 2025, 10:46 AM
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Opinion / Whom will the Awami League supporters vote for?

The Awami League (AL) is very likely to haunt the entire exercise.
16 October 2025, 03:00 AM
16 October 2025, 03:00 AM
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A voice of resistance, progressive thought falls silent

Badruddin Umar, the eminent public intellectual, historian, and political activist, passed away in Dhaka yesterday at the age of 94. He breathed his last at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital, Shyamoli, around 10:05am. He was suffering from old-age complications.
7 September 2025, 18:10 PM
7 September 2025, 18:10 PM
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Badruddin Umar speaks / 'We must not lose focus from real political barriers'

Hasina took dynasty politics to levels we could not have ever imagined. What happened to Sheikh Mujib’s former residence was unfortunate. But I would say that Sheikh Hasina is partly responsible for the incident.
7 September 2025, 08:22 AM
7 September 2025, 08:22 AM
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The 36th day of July / August 5, 2024: The day the people triumphed

August 5 became a watershed in Bangladesh’s history -- the climactic peak of the July uprising.
4 August 2025, 18:10 PM
4 August 2025, 18:10 PM
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The July that rocked Bangladesh / August 4, 2024: The deadliest day of the uprising

August 4, 2024 marked the deadliest day of Bangladesh’s student-led uprising, as the non-cooperation movement entered an explosive new phase.
3 August 2025, 18:08 PM
3 August 2025, 18:08 PM
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Bulgaria will study 5-year plan

U Tin Thin, director, International Monetary Fund, Asia Department, calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Govt to build memorial honouring martyred intellectuals

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today asks Works Minister Matiur Rahman to visit Katabari in Rayerbazar area to select a site for a memorial plaque bearing the names of the intellectuals who had been brutally murdered there by the Pakistan Army and their collaborators Al Badr on the eve of the surrender by the enemy in December, 1971.
12 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Black marketeers, hoarders warned

DON’T CHARGE EXORBITANT PRICES: BANGABANDHU
11 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Awami Jubo League formed

Sheikh Fazlul Huq Moni, a member of the Awami League organising committee, at a press conference at the National Press Club today announces formation of a new youth political organisation under the name of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League (BAJL).
10 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangabandhu greets Nixon

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday extended his warmest felicitations to Richard M Nixon on his re-election to the presidentship of the United States.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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First Eid on free soil of Bangladesh

The Eid-ul-Fitr on the free soil of Bangladesh is celebrated today in an atmosphere of joy and celebration.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Recognition will bring peace in subcontinent

A brief joint press statement issued at the conclusion of the Indo-Bangla talks held in Delhi notes that both sides are in complete agreement
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangabandhu greets October Socialist Revolution

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today sends greetings to the government and people of the Soviet Union on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
5 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh-Poland economic cooperation

Ugandan special envoy JN Kakamba has handed over a personal message from President General Idi Amin to Prime Minister Bangabandhu
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Constitution enacted

Speaking at the Gono Parishad during the third reading of the Constitution Bill today the Leader of the House Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman says this is the first time in history that Bangalees as a nation made a constitution to hold aloft the banner of their sovereignty.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Shake off age-old systems: Bangabandhu

The Gono Parishad adopts all 153 Articles with some amendments. The House also adopts the first, second, third and fourth schedules with a
2 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Inconclusive debate on Article 70

The much talked about Article 70 of the Constitution Bill relating to the vacation of seat on resignation or expulsion from political party is discussed today at the Constituent Assembly.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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9 Amendments Passed

The Gonoparishad adopts 16 articles with nine minor amendments moved by the members of the ruling party on October 31, 1972. Of the 25
31 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh wants amity with China

Abdus Samad Azad, the foreign minister of Bangladesh, says today in Belgrade that Bangladesh wishes friendship with China and agreement with Pakistan.
28 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Serve people of the villages: Bangabandhu

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman says today that he wants qualified doctors to go to rural areas so that the people living in villages receive the benefits of modern treatment.
27 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Freedom Fighters’ Welfare Trust set up

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government has formed a trust with an initial fund of about Tk 4 crore in both cash and industrial units for the benefit of freedom fighters who had made supreme sacrifices with their blood,
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Pakistan should seize historic opportunity: Mujib

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has told two Pakistani journalists who met him recently in Dhaka that Pakistan is hindering progress towards solution to the humanitarian as well as political problems in the sub-continent by deferring recognition of Bangladesh.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Constitution copy will be a handwritten document

The original copy of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh will be a handwritten document and will bear the signatures of all members of the Constituent Assembly.
23 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh will attend Colombo Plan meeting

Bangladesh will attend the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee meeting in New Delhi on October 30 as an observer.
22 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Tk 785cr transferred by Pakistani industrialists

About Tk 785 crore in plant and machinery, bank balance and cash have been transferred by the West Pakistani industrialists and big industry houses to West Pakistan on the eve of the liberation of Bangladesh, according to a preliminary survey conducted by the government.
21 October 2020, 18:00 PM

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