‘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
Draft constitution almost ready
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s health condition is satisfactory, says a health bulletin issued by Bangabandhu’s personal physician Dr Nurul Islam today. Bangabandhu has a long discussion with the Bangladesh Ambassador to France, Abdul Fatteh today.
28 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bring down prices, women’s rally urges govt
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is expected to return home by the second week of September, 1972, informs Gono Bhaban sources today.
27 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bhutto called Bangabandhu
Pakistan President ZA Bhutto called Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman while the latter was in London after a gallbladder operation. This is disclosed by Bangabandhu over his phone conversation with acting Prime Minister Syed Nazrul Islam today.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Chinese veto condemned
China has risked serious repercussions by vetoing Bangladesh’s application for membership of the United Nations, sources close to Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman say today.
25 August 2020, 18:00 PM
China vetoes
China today vetoes Bangladesh’s application for UN membership. An Indian-Soviet resolution recommending the admission of Bangladesh to the United Nations is rejected by China’s first Security Council veto.
24 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Resist Pak manoeuvres, Dhaka urges UN Council
The Bangladesh Government today asks the Security Council to pronounce “speedily and favourably” on its application for membership of the United Nations, “resisting the unjustified manoeuvres” of Pakistan to block its entry.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu anxious to come back home
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is convalescing in Geneva had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad the night before.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Majority favours early admission of Bangladesh
The Security Council’s committee on the admission of new members by an overwhelming majority favours the immediate admission of Bangladesh into the United Nations today.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu reaches Geneva
Following his gallbladder surgery on July 31, Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman flies to Geneva on a chartered plane from London today for convalescence in Switzerland as a guest of the Swiss Government.
20 August 2020, 18:00 PM
UN Admission Committee’s meeting on Bangladesh tomorrow
Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will leave for Geneva tomorrow morning as planned for 10 days of convalescence following his gallbladder surgery in London on July 31.
19 August 2020, 18:00 PM
New plan to avert Chinese veto
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been keeping well for the last few days after undergoing gallbladder surgery in London on July 30, a health bulletin issued by his personal physician Dr Nurul Islam says today.
18 August 2020, 18:00 PM
British PM meets Bangabandhu
British Prime Minister Edward Heath calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the latter’s hotel suite today. Coming out of Bangabandhu’s room at Hotel Claridges, Heath tells newsmen that he has had ‘very good talks’ with the Bangladesh prime minister.
17 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh becomes member of IMF, World Bank
Bangladesh today officially enters the world’s financial community, a much required move for the new nation’s economic development. SA Karim,
16 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Mujib to stay in Geneva till full recovery
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will stay in Switzerland until complete recovery of his health as the guest of the Swiss government.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bhutto’s statement lambasted
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will leave London for Geneva on August 21 to recuperate from his gallbladder surgery. The prime minister is likely to stay in Geneva for 10 days.
14 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Work hard to rebuild the country
Bangabandhu recalls India’s “invaluable support” to Bangladesh’s struggle for freedom. Bangabandhu, in a message to Indian Prime Minister
13 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu’s health shows remarkable improvement
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who underwent a gallbladder operation on July 30, will leave London clinic tomorrow morning, according to a health bulletin issued by his personal physician Dr Nurul Islam today.
12 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh stands for peace
The objection raised at the Security Council against Bangladesh’s entry into the UN are politely but firmly rejected as illogical and irrelevant by Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad at a press conference today in Dhaka.
11 August 2020, 18:00 PM
UN Council strives to avert Chinese veto
Security Council members, striving to avert a Chinese veto, today agree to defer until August 21 further consideration of Bangladesh’s application for the UN membership.
10 August 2020, 18:00 PM
UN Council considers Bangladesh membership
The UN Security Council meets today and considers Bangladesh’s candidature for membership of the United Nations.
9 August 2020, 18:00 PM