Donald Trump has variously been described as “dangerous,” “fraud,” “unhinged,” “racist,” “mentally unbalanced” and “outright nuts.” Vanity Fair magazine's Mark Bowden summed up these epithets in one sentence in a slightly more charitable manner:

They don't go to schools, schools come to them.

The poor, marginalised, and uninformed madrasa students in Bangladesh are too weak and disorganised to spearhead any violent or revolutionary movement. This explains why urban, rich, and secular-educated – not rural, poor, and madrasa-educated – youths appear so far to be the main foot soldiers of Islamist terror.

The recent government decision to make residential areas residential makes sense. However, authorities seem to have gone gung ho in implementation.

The horrific story of the murder of Sagar Barman, aged 10, was published in the front page of The Daily Star and other leading dailies of the country on July 25, 2016.

It is baffling that physical courage is so common in the world and moral courage so rare. It is hard to find people whose manner is infused with kindness, humility and integrity, in other words, character. The issue is relevant because it is timeless.

The challenge now before all of us is to determine how deep and wide the spread of extremist ideologies is, how entrenched is the threat and, more importantly, how we can effectively fight it.

While major Western media outlets didn't make much of the news, it is obvious that the French and US airstrikes that targeted the village of Toukhan Al-Kubra near the Turkish-Syrian border and the city of Manbij had gone horribly wrong!

Despite all the ramifications of progressiveness that civilisation has experimented with, the preoccupation with the female members of the population has never been on the wane.

“Patriotism” and “national unity” trumped truth. The line between propaganda and journalism was forgotten.

There are two kinds of virtues, the resume virtues and the eulogy virtues. The former are the skills that one brings to a job interview.

With the exception of four years when he was abroad, 62-year-old Ashrafuzzaman Mohabbat had offered every single Eid prayer at

We have been attacked as never before. The facts do not need to

Although some Bangladeshi politicians till the recent past – the home minister repeated his position on July 3 2016 that the Holey Artisan Bakery massacre has no ISIS link...

As a people, as a Nation and as a country we are shell shocked at the brutality of the terrorist attack that killed twenty two people at

Of late we have seen pictures of the police handing over bamboo sticks to groups of people in various districts ostensibly for the purpose of combating militancy and extremism in the country.

LISA, a thorough Texan, had left the United States only once for a vacation. She had never travelled the world before.

While European leaders dreamt of an intertwined economy across Europe 43 years ago, the British people desired something else.

The Muslim world is in agony each time there is a killing in a non-Muslim locale. Who did it? Why, is not important, and most often never known. Will it be a person carrying a Muslim name? Will they then search for his terrorist linkage? Will it be a non-

Avijit Mukherjee, son of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Lok Sabha MP, recently on a private visit to Dhaka, has left a good impression by his clarity of thought on a rather tangled issue.