‘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
Pakistan accepts truce call of UN
Pakistan informed the United Nations today that she had “decided to accept” the General Assembly’s call for ceasefire and for a withdrawal of hostile troops to their own soil.
8 December 2021, 18:00 PM
India derides UN proposal for ceasefire
A senior Indian spokesman today disputed statements by a White House spokesman that Indian military intervention in East Pakistan had foiled American efforts to persuade the Bangalee “insurgents” and the Pakistan authorities to reach a political settlement.
7 December 2021, 18:00 PM
General Assembly holds emergency debate
The UN General Assembly today held an emergency debate on the Indo-Pakistan war with Argentina proposing an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of troops of both sides.
6 December 2021, 18:00 PM
India recognises Bangladesh
Amidst tumultuous cheers and jubilation at Lok Sabha, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced today that India has recognised the government of Bangladesh.
5 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia vetoes troop-pullback proposal
The Soviet Union vetoed today in the UN Security Council an American resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Indian-Pakistani conflict and for the withdrawal of the armed forces of both the countries to their own side of the border.
4 December 2021, 18:00 PM
My aim is to make Pakistan armed forces surrender: Lt Gen Aurora
The Mitro Bahini (India-Bangladesh Joint Command) swung into action against Pakistan today. The air force of the Joint Command
3 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Today the war in Bangladesh has become a war on India: Indira
Pakistan today launched an undeclared full-scale war on India. Pakistan made air strikes on a number of airfields in the western region of India and began shelling several places. Immediately,
2 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Pressure on India won’t work: Indira
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi declared today that it did not worry India at all as to who called her aggressor when she had not committed any aggression.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Road to Freedom: This Day in Bangladesh Liberation War History
The prime minister of Bangladesh, Tajuddin Ahmad, today said the proposal to send UN observers to Bangladesh was nothing but a “planned conspiracy” and “a foul attempt to protect the military regime from the back door”.
30 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Indira wants Pak troop withdrawn from Bangladesh
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today suggested straightway withdrawal of Pakistani troops from Bangladesh as a gesture of peace . The presence of troops in Bangladesh is a “threat to our security”, she claimed.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh will stand by India: Qamaruzzaman
The Pakistan government was called upon today to release details of the trial of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The demand came from the independent International Commission of Jurists which expressed its deep concern over the cloak of silence as to the trial.
28 November 2021, 18:00 PM
No justice expected from Security Council: Indira
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi today said any reference of the present tension on the Indian subcontinent to the UN Security Council would neither help ease the situation nor would it materially affect the situation.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
I would like the Indians to be embarrassed: Nixon
US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger, in a telephone conversation today, informed President Nixon that he had told China,
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Point of no return: Yahya
The Soviet Union made a new urgent appeal to Pakistan to desist from escalating the situation in the Indian subcontinent.
24 November 2021, 18:00 PM
USA, UK call for restraint
Both America and Britain expressed their concern at the military confrontation between India and Pakistan, and appealed to the two states for restraint in the present “ potentially dangerous situation in the subcontinent”.
23 November 2021, 18:00 PM
National emergency declared in Pakistan
Bangladesh Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed today called upon the people of Bangladesh to turn the current phase of the Liberation War into a decisive one.
22 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Kissinger’s plan for isolating India
Henry Kissinger, the US President’s assistant for National Security Affairs, called the US President Nixon today at 12:45pm and said, “There is no doubt there is a large encroachment taking place and it is heavily backed by the Indians.”
21 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Joint command formed
China’s relations with Pakistan and the reported speech of the Chinese delegate at the United Nations were not unexpected, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi said today.
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Yahya declined to discuss with Mujib
Henry Kissinger, US president’s assistant for national security affairs, in a memorandum dated November 20, 1971, informed president Nixon
19 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Yahya offers friendship
Indian external affairs minister Swaran Singh categorically rejected in Rajya Sabha today the reported American proposal to send a mission to India to study the Bangladesh problem.
18 November 2021, 18:00 PM