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Ziauddin Choudhury

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Boatloads of human misery

For full two weeks or thereabouts in April the media in the west, particularly the US, were ablaze with news of hundreds of migrants
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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The blurring of distinction between law enforcement and law breaking

This is not common in countries where the law enforcement machinery is handicapped by a serious gap in training and education in professionalism, human rights, and behaviour.
15 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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Witnessing another ELECTION CHARADE

STUFFING of ballot boxes whether in national or local elections is nothing new in Bangladesh.
29 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Losing a battle to win a war?

The rather undramatic end to the three plus months of blockade punctuated by strikes has elicited a sigh of relief from hartal stricken people of Bangladesh.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM

The stalled war against Islamic militants

THE war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is about to observe its first anniversary.
31 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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March 7: An eye witness account

THE speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib given at the Race Course (now Suhrawardy Uddyan) forty-four years ago on March 7...
8 March 2015, 18:00 PM

A murder most foul

It seems there is no end to sensational news from Bangladesh. Smack on the face of the dramatic revelation of the phone conversations of a civil society stalwart that shook the society, came the horrific news of a most brutal killing of an activist writer in public view. His offense was seemingly his writings that advocated tolerance, freedom from bigotry of all kinds, love and respect for all humans, and above all a just society.
1 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Hype over Mamata Banerjee visit

Mamata Banerjee came, saw, but did not quite conquer the Bangladeshi heart. But then, the last may not have been her plan.
24 February 2015, 18:00 PM
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Pondering the imponderable

A few days ago, in a news interview in Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) radio here in the US, a journalist covering events in Afghanistan provided a grim view of the prospects of democracy in that country.
18 February 2015, 18:00 PM
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