Bloodshed in Brussels and Angst of Muslims of the West
Terrorists struck again within six months of the carnage in Paris, this time in Brussels, the city that serves as headquarters of both NATO and European Union. Brussels is not unknown to terrorism; the city saw acts of terror no less than six times in the past few years, but none with the ferocity and violence
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Digital Heist / Who guards the guardhouse?
In a surreal digital theft that befits a high octane movie thriller, we were recently informed of the daring heist at
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Donald Trump- using democracy to an autocratic future?
The avalanche of Donald Trump's presidential campaign success reached new levels this Tuesday...
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Nepal's plight: Land locked or India-locked?
After months of a chill in Indo-Nepal relationship, there is new sign of things warming up and India's loosening of the vise on Nepal. The Prime Minister of Nepal signed several treaties with India in his latest visit to Delhi early February, but only after his country had agreed to amend the recently adopted Nepalese Constitution that apparently had caused the Indian resentment, and put Nepal in the wrong end of the stick.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Law enforcement and accountability
In the last one year, the news that mostly occupied headlines in the US concerned police excesses.
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM
A runaway bureaucracy
In 1972, shortly after liberation, I used to work in the Prime Minister's secretariat in a small cubbyhole of a room that was hardly big enough for one desk and two chairs.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
From a winter of discontent to a spring of hope
A year ago from today not even a savvy soothsayer would have dared to predict the change in our political climate that we are witnessing now.
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM
POLITICS / Of turmoil and complacency
THE year 2015 began with a perilous journey of confrontation between the main opposition and the government. On the anniversary of the 2014...
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Numbers game, here we go again
What such statements ignore is that crimes against humanity are not judged simply by numbers, these are judged by their viciousness and enormity. By questioning and debating the number of deaths, we cannot deny the enormity of civilian massacre in 1971 and the damage it caused.
28 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Happy endings to a troubled year?
The year 2015 began with firebombs thrown at people, but if everything goes well it may end with people throwing firecrackers into the
23 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Looking back into the mirror
In the apocalyptic days of early December of 1971, when Dhaka was a beleaguered city, there were very few shops
15 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Donald Trump's America
Donald Trump, the blustering billionaire who made a name for himself by proclaiming President Obama as a foreign born citizen...
11 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Collaterals of Terrorism
The suspicion and hatred that Muslims face today cannot simply be removed by condemnation of the terror acts and dissociation from these acts by calling them un-Islamic.
1 December 2015, 18:00 PM
CARNAGE IN PARIS: What will follow?
Once again we are face to face with another bloodbath -- senseless and brutal killing of innocent people in Paris by a robotic gang that is recruited ...
16 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Long road to democracy
Suu Kyi has reportedly said that she would control the future government even though she cannot be President, but she did not elaborate how she would square that circle.
12 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Hiding head in the sands - Our inept pursuit of the killing hands
In our 45 years of history, we have never been able to establish a clear platform of governance structure that upholds rule of law, transparency in governance, or equality.
3 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Assurances of safety and security
Our assurances will continue to sound empty unless the killers of the four bloggers and the two innocent foreign citizens are apprehended and demonstrably punished.
26 October 2015, 18:00 PM
WHEN THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG - MODI'S RSS CHALLENGE
The news of a mob in Dadri, a UP village in India of beating to death an individual suspected of cow slaughter would have been normally viewed just as another communal incident.
14 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Russia joins the fray
At last Russia has decided that it will not be in the sidelines any more. After much speculation among western powers about its role in the four-year long Syrian war, Russia has come out full force to defend its long time regional ally, President Assad.
5 October 2015, 18:00 PM
An accident or a man-made disaster?
Experts on crowd control explain that such stampedes occur when massive crowds of people, in a tightly packed space, attempt to press forward when there is no way to divert or turn back. Saudi authorities have explained the stampede as a fault of the pilgrims not heeding instructions.
28 September 2015, 18:00 PM
When enough is enough
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
8 September 2015, 18:00 PM
The lure of extremism
Muslim Bangladeshis living in the UK recently became a focus of interest to all Bangladeshis living home and abroad when the news of some young Muslims of Bangladeshi origin joining the so-called Islamic State in Syria/Iraq struck the front page.
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Playing Solitaire In A Parliamentary Democracy
Democracy in a one-party state may sound like an oxymoron, but such a thing does exist in our known world. In a single-party state
25 July 2015, 18:00 PM
A crowded bandwagon of hopefuls
In another fifteen months, the world's eyes will be riveted on the United States to see who the next US President will be.
14 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The season of manmade disasters
That time is upon us again. Not just to witness people hitting markets for shopping, but also to see them leaving in droves for homes to see their dear ones.
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Managing fan behaviour and exuberance
The series victory in cricket against India has taken our people on a joy ride that the country does not witness very often.
29 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Modi is no Gandhi
The agony and ecstasy over Prime Minister Modi's visit to Bangladesh is now gone. Dust is settling over the commotion and hype
13 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Questions never answered
Recalling a nightmare is never a pleasant experience, yet every year this time my mind is thrown back to the eerie morning of May 30,
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM