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‘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
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Repatriation can’t be linked with POW

No indication is available here today as to when the repatriation of women and children to and from Pakistan under the offer made by India and Bangladesh will take place. India and Bangladesh are in consultation with each other on Pakistan’s response to their offer.
21 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Pakistan to repatriate 10,000 Bangalees

Pakistan President ZA Bhutto announces at a jirga meeting today that 10,000 Bangalee women and children would be allowed to go back to their
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Families of POWs, internees to be repatriated

Bangladesh and India have decided to repatriate to Pakistan members of the families of Pakistani civilian internees and prisoners of war as “a humanitarian gesture”, the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry announces today.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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‘Stop arms race’

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today calls upon peace-loving people of the world to strengthen the movement for
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Swedish support for UN membership

The river routes between India and Bangladesh will be reopened from tomorrow after a lapse of seven years.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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New pay scales on December 16

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is expected to announce the new pay scales of the government on Victory Day, to be
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Japan offers technical help

Japanese ambassador Takashi Oyamada communicates to Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Japan’s willingness to provide technical help to Bangladesh when he calls on Bangabandhu at the Gono Bhaban today.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Supply 7 lakh tonnes of food grains to Bangladesh

Sir Robert Jackson, United Nations under secretary general and chief coordinator of the United Nations relief operations in Bangladesh, told
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bulgaria will study 5-year plan

U Tin Thin, director, International Monetary Fund, Asia Department, calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Govt to build memorial honouring martyred intellectuals

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today asks Works Minister Matiur Rahman to visit Katabari in Rayerbazar area to select a site for a memorial plaque bearing the names of the intellectuals who had been brutally murdered there by the Pakistan Army and their collaborators Al Badr on the eve of the surrender by the enemy in December, 1971.
12 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Black marketeers, hoarders warned

DON’T CHARGE EXORBITANT PRICES: BANGABANDHU
11 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Awami Jubo League formed

Sheikh Fazlul Huq Moni, a member of the Awami League organising committee, at a press conference at the National Press Club today announces formation of a new youth political organisation under the name of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League (BAJL).
10 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangabandhu greets Nixon

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday extended his warmest felicitations to Richard M Nixon on his re-election to the presidentship of the United States.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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First Eid on free soil of Bangladesh

The Eid-ul-Fitr on the free soil of Bangladesh is celebrated today in an atmosphere of joy and celebration.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Recognition will bring peace in subcontinent

A brief joint press statement issued at the conclusion of the Indo-Bangla talks held in Delhi notes that both sides are in complete agreement
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangabandhu greets October Socialist Revolution

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today sends greetings to the government and people of the Soviet Union on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
5 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh-Poland economic cooperation

Ugandan special envoy JN Kakamba has handed over a personal message from President General Idi Amin to Prime Minister Bangabandhu
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Constitution enacted

Speaking at the Gono Parishad during the third reading of the Constitution Bill today the Leader of the House Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman says this is the first time in history that Bangalees as a nation made a constitution to hold aloft the banner of their sovereignty.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Shake off age-old systems: Bangabandhu

The Gono Parishad adopts all 153 Articles with some amendments. The House also adopts the first, second, third and fourth schedules with a
2 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Inconclusive debate on Article 70

The much talked about Article 70 of the Constitution Bill relating to the vacation of seat on resignation or expulsion from political party is discussed today at the Constituent Assembly.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM

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