‘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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bangladesh always sympathetic to Arab cause: Bangabandhu
The visiting four-member Egyptian trade delegation today calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the secretariat.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
5-yr plan draft outline in June
Dr Nurul Islam, deputy chairman of the planning commission, discloses today that the draft outline of the first five-year plan would be
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
No threat can stop war criminals’ trial: Samad
The Soviet Union and Chile today call for the speedy recognition of the lawful aspiration of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh as regards its
9 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Inconsistent laws will become void on Dec 16
Substantial progress has been made by the government in scrutinizing existing laws to identify the provisions which will automatically become
8 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Lok Sabha debate on Bangladesh and POWs
Indian External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh says today that unless Pakistan recognises Bangladesh and unless Bangladesh is admitted to the
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Cabinet meeting held
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over the cabinet meeting held at the secretariat in Dhaka.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Anti-socials must be routed: Mujib
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reiterates today that miscreants must be wiped out from the country, and corruption eradicated from
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM
First year of Bangladesh Bangabandhu’s nation-building challenges
Bangladesh, a nation freed from the occupation of Pakistan rule, pays warm and rich tribute to the memory of Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose contributions to democracy are deeply cherished by the people of this country. Today his ninth dearth anniversary is observed.
4 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bhutto threatens counter-trial
Pakistan President ZA Bhutto has said in Islamabad that it would be unwise for Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
3 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh will work for durable peace
President Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury today says that the new nation Bangladesh would extend full cooperation to India for establishment of durable peace in the subcontinent to make it an abode of peace.
2 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bhutto envisages special relationship with Bangladesh
Pakistani President ZA Bhutto envisages a special relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh in which there would be certain special trade agreements and no visas for the people of one country visiting the other.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Indira’s message to Bangabandhu
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has expressed the hope that the friendship and cooperation existing between Bangladesh and her country would grow and become an example of good neighbourly relations for the world at large.
30 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh entry recommended
The General Assembly adopts a unanimous resolution calling for the admission of Bangladesh to the world body at an early date. Member countries including China and Pakistan approve the resolution moved by Yugoslavia with the support of 22 countries.
29 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Soviet-Bangladesh commodity exchange protocol signed
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman leaves Dhaka today on a three-day tour to see the coastal embankment projects and arrangements for conservation of coastal forests.
28 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh resolutions finalised
An agreement has been reached by the sponsoring nations on a ‘compromise’ formula relating to the admission of Bangladesh into the UN.
27 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Cargil calls on Bangabandhu
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and World Bank Vice-president Peter Cargil have a 45-minute talk at the Gono Bhaban
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu asks Adamjee workers to increase production
The governments of Bangladesh and India regretted Pakistan’s failure to comply with the joint Indo-Bangladesh proposal to repatriate all families of Bangladesh nationals in Pakistan purely on humanitarian grounds,
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Honorary doctorate degree for Bangabandhu
Nearly four lakh women have been sexually assaulted during the liberation struggle in Bangladesh. At least 20 percent of them are either social outcasts or have lost their property or their bread-earning male family members.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US delegation calls on Bangabandhu
The 11-member congressional delegation from the Agriculture Committee of the United States House of Representatives holds talks for
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM
British proposal for Bangladesh-Pakistan talks
British Foreign Secretary Sir Alex Douglas Hume has offered London as “neutral ground” for a peace meeting between Bangladesh and Pakistan.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM