Can justice ever be done to Tonu?

Justice for Tonu has taken social media by storm after the body of 19-year-old Tonu was recovered from Mainamati Cantonment area
26 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Breaking the barriers

SM Sohel stooped over the keyboard in front, with close attention to a speaker, as he was trying to fix an image of a macaw over a text
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Don't forget Tonu

All over the country people are protesting – students, parents, cultural activists. They are calling for justice for Tonu.
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Nixon was advised to recognise Bangladesh

US intelligence analysis had predicted early that the separation of Pakistan was imminent as the political situation in East Pakistan descended into chaos in March 1971.
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Protecting the Sundarbans is our national duty

The Sundarbans, the last reserve forest in the country and a world heritage site, is again under attack. On March 19, 2016, a cargo
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Flawed elections will damage our democracy

ALMOSt all the preparatory steps for the first round of UP elections are now over – the only thing that is still left is the actual polling on
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Becoming Bangabandhu

That does it mean for a man, or a woman, to have 'a life led in politics'? Is it one in the midst or at the forefront of great events...
16 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The List of Shame

He stood there at the reception, with a sling bag filled with documents. He worked for a courier company. He was 10 years old.
15 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Improving the Dhaka airport experience

Before deplaning, I make sure that I won't have to use the bathroom facilities for the one to two hours that I will spend in the terminal building. The stench of the bathrooms is overpowering! One shudders to think of the reaction of foreigners.
13 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Dangerously exposed

The recent hacking of the Bangladesh Bank system to steal at least $100 million reveals the vulnerability of the central bank's IT infrastructure, weak operational architecture and probable insider link. The heist also puts to question what kind of network architecture and firewall it has in place. Everybody is talking about malware injection into the BB system but nobody is asking how the malware could enter the supposed-to-be most robust and secure system of a central bank in the first place.
12 March 2016, 18:05 PM

The penalty of success

One of my better lessons of life has been the understanding, and with good reason that, that if someone is upset with you, shows
5 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Police for People

If we peel back the layers of the most recent crimes such as the killing of children and the disturbing prevalence of violence against women...
2 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The giants and the pygmies amongst us

One thing constant in the varying nature of killing children is how ruthlessly a life is nipped in the bud. Be it infanticide, prolicide or paedocide, that nipping is shocking no matter who does it and how it's done.
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM

PM's call for taking responsibility

The absence of rational discourse itself is driving the chain of events in today's Bangladesh. That certainly cannot bode well for the nation going forward.
24 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Why gender sensitivity is still the call for the day

Women who opt to work in garment factories, instead of working as a domestic help or getting married, are often viewed as women of “loose character.” In fact, this is the case for all working women, be it RMG workers, or journalists, photographers or field researchers.
21 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The mad maddening election malaise

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

This is a watershed moment for India

The standoff at New Delhi's famous Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) that has transfixed India has nothing of the routine campus controversy about it.
19 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Write about the Right Rite

Being an alpha male, I am rightfully upset for having to turn the right cheek, but I'm right as rain now. After all, when it comes to a bike versus a car, the tide of the argument, as experienced here, is in essence the rite of road rage.
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM

You can't pass a donkey as a horse!

AT the risk of sounding “anti-growth” and “anti-exports” – and heck, of damaging the “image” of the country (because, apparently,
17 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Can lower price hurt the economy?

While lower fuel cost may keep the cost of driving low and the opportunity cost of conservation high, the setback is predicted to be temporary.
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM