‘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
‘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
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
28 October 2025, 10:46 AM
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
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
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
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
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
‘Bangladesh will always remain with Soviet people’
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev hold a discussion on the question of further developing and consolidating relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
1 March 2020, 18:00 PM
‘My country is irrevocably committed to democracy’
Talks between the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman opens in Kremlin. The talk starts shortly after the arrival of Bangabandhu in Moscow.
29 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Gratitude and goodwill for Soviet people
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman leaves today on a five-day state visit to the Soviet Union carrying a message of friendship from the people of Bangladesh.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘A strong, united and determined nation’
A high-powered Soviet economic team calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today.
27 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Appointment based on merit
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares that commissions will be set up to appoint suitable persons in government services according to merit.
26 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘The game is over now’
Bangabandhu calls for agricultural revolution to make the country self-sufficient in food production.
25 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Persuade Pindi to stop persecution’
Paul Mark Henry, assistant secretary-general of the UN, today makes an unscheduled air-dash to his headquarters in New York following two consecutive meetings with Bangabandhu.
24 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Tribunals to try war criminals
The government has decided that organisations and functionaries such as zonal council, zonal administration, civil liaison officer,
23 February 2020, 18:00 PM
“Asians will decide their own fate”
Bangabandhu appeals to the UN secretary-general to use his office urgently to alleviate the plight of the Bangalee population living in different parts of Pakistan. He also requests the UN secretary-general to send his special representative to Pakistan for this purpose.
22 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘The imperialists are still around us’
In an interview with BTV on the reminiscence of 1952, Bangabandhu says, “Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had no sympathy for Bengalees.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Excess land will go to landless peasants
Bangabandhu today visits Ramgati in Noakhali and Shantirhat in Bhola. This is the prime minister’s second visit to the rural areas of Bangladesh after his assumption of office.
19 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Leadership to people
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been empowered by the working committee of Awami League to form a committee to reorganise the party to provide the people leadership.
18 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Massive help needed without delay
Bangabandhu says that although he has friendly feelings towards the people of USA, he cannot support President Richard Nixon’s administration, which has still not recognised Bangladesh.
17 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Workers will share profit of industries’
The working committee of Awami League, in its first meeting after the Liberation War held in Dhaka today, discusses the political and economic situation in the country and matters relating to the party.
16 February 2020, 18:00 PM
First year of Bangladesh Bangabandhu’s nation-building challenges: ‘No complacency’
Bangabandhu issues a strong warning to miscreants and hooligans who are harassing innocent people and looting their properties. The prime minister says that these elements will be dealt “with a heavy hand by the government”.
15 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Build a society free from exploitation’
In a broadcast to the nation on the occasion of the National Martyrs’ Day, Bangabandhu says that the language movement was not only a movement centred around the language issue, it was also a movement aimed at the establishment of the rights of the people of Bangladesh. It was the movement for liberation, he adds.
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Bangladesh is a reality’
Bangabandhu warmly greets Senator Edward Kennedy, his wife Joan B Kennedy and his nephew Joseph Kennedy at the prime minister’s residence. Russel, the youngest son of the prime minister, speeds past his father to be the first to greet the senator.
13 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh not to accept liabilities
Soviet Chargé D’affaires V. Popov calls on Bangabandhu at his official residence. Popov tells newsmen that matters connected with Bangabandhu’s forthcoming visit came up for discussion.
12 February 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Lethargy won’t be tolerated’
Bangabandhu warns the government officials against tardiness in attendance and says that Bangladesh has achieved its independence through the blood and tears of millions of countrymen and the government will not allow any lethargy on the part of the officials to stand in the way of national development.
11 February 2020, 18:00 PM
“Bangladesh has nothing to hide”
“The government of Bangladesh has nothing to hide,” comments Vittorio Winspeare-Guiccardi, UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Humanitarian Problems, after a meeting with Bangabandhu today afternoon.
10 February 2020, 18:00 PM