‘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
Constitution in shortest possible time
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman maintains today that the Gono Parishad (Constitutent Assembly) in its forthcoming session would enact a constitution which would meet the expectations of the people and reflect their hopes and aspirations.
8 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Social evil must be eradicated: Bangabandhu
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today says in the larger interest of the nation he would not hesitate to take extreme measures against a few.
7 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh may stand on its own feet by next spring
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over a high-level conference relating to the distribution of cotton yarns in the country.
6 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Coordination council for anti-smuggling operation
All the agencies working as part of the anti-smuggling machinery along the borders of the country have been placed under the unified
5 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu orders drastic action against smugglers
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman orders the army and the navy to rush to border areas to help the civil administration prevent smuggling.
4 October 2020, 18:00 PM
China won’t change stance
UN officials now on a visit in Dhaka -- Sir Robert Jackson, Urquhart and Lansky -- have an hourlong discussion on relief operations in
3 October 2020, 18:00 PM
41,000 arrested on charges of collaboration, corruption
Home Minister Abdul Mannan announces today that over 41,000 collaborators including about 275 police officials have so far been arrested by the government.
2 October 2020, 18:00 PM
India-Bangladesh cooperation in education
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a directive issued today at various government departments instructs them to make expeditious payment of allowances to the families and dependents of Bangalee officials stranded in Pakistan as per his mid-July order.
1 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Enrolment of voters begins
The preparation of electoral rolls for the first general election to be held in independent sovereign Bangladesh began throughout the country today. President Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury and Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are enrolled as voters in the morning.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Mobilise resources for self-sufficiency in food
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over a high-level conference at the Gono Bhaban which reviews the entire programme for agriculture during 1972-73.
29 September 2020, 18:00 PM
19 MCAs expelled
A wide variety of products made of jutton, a fabric produced from 70 percent jute and 30 percent cotton, is shown to Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono Bhaban today. The prime minister’s first reaction to jutton is, “We are successful now.”
28 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Aid for war-torn economy sought
Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today holds a meeting of senior officials of Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB) at the Gono Bhaban and reviews the activities of the government body. They discuss the problems faced by TCB in importing various essentials goods.
27 September 2020, 18:00 PM
First labour policy announced
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman expresses his firm confidence that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country would ever remain intact under the united and coordinated efforts of the heroic Bangladesh Air force, the Army and the Navy.
26 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Allow Bangalees to perform Hajj
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has sent a telegram to His Majesty King Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, sovereign of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, requesting him to allow prospective
25 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Constituent assembly to sit on October 12
The Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh has been summoned today to meet on October 12 at 9:30am at the Gono Parishad Bhaban.
24 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Education must reflect people’s aspiration
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman asks the Education Commission today to expedite its recommendations keeping in view the requirements of the present as well as future generations.
23 September 2020, 18:00 PM
UN to discuss admission of Bangladesh
The United Nations General Assembly today agrees to discuss the question of admission of Bangladesh during its current session. A recommendation made to this effect by the general committee at the initiative of Yugoslavia was accepted by the Assembly.
22 September 2020, 18:00 PM
19 MCAs expelled from AL
19 members of the constituent assembly belonging to the ruling Awami League have been expelled from the party on charges of corruption,
21 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Food must reach affected areas in time
A high-level conference held at the Gono Bhaban today reviews the food situation in the country. Presided over by Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,
20 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Draft Constitution finalised
The Draft Constitution for the country has been finalised and sent for printing, which would be complete before the current month is out.
19 September 2020, 18:00 PM