OUR nationalist movement that led to the War of Liberation began soon after the creation of Pakistan. Since inception, the Pakistani rulers began maligning our culture to destroy our independent cultural identity.

THE South China Sea has seen its share of troubles over the decades.

WHICH memories of 1971 are horrific? The whole period from March 25 to December 15 was one continuous hell.

IN his speech on January 6, 1941, 22nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “A world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression … everywhere in the world.

FIVE separate reports, as a response to the High Court's directive, were submitted to the attorney general's office yesterday by the law enforcing agencies stating that none of them has arrested the BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed.

FIVE separate reports, as a response to the High Court's directive, were submitted to the attorney general's office yesterday by the law enforcing agencies stating that none of them has arrested the BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed.

ANY direction you cast your gaze you encounter violence in myriad forms; situated in racial, religious, ethnic, or class conflict zones.

IN the absence of a political solution the crisis thrown up by the events in East Pakistan can only get worse.

SOMETIME ago, a leader in this newspaper wondered what had happened to our sense of decency. The thought-provoking article struck a chord in many hearts, including mine.

LAST July, when United States federal judge Thomas Griesa ruled that Argentina had to repay in full the so-called vulture funds that had bought its sovereign debt at rock-bottom prices, the country was forced into default, or “Griesafault.”

Here we publish Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sydney H. Schanberg's famous article titled "Pakistan Divided".

WE will sign on the dotted line without ever reflecting on why we are signing a letter off by expressing our sincerity to known and unknown persons, to people whom we love to hate and people whom we will perhaps never meet.

THERE is something manifestly unusual in the media report that says that the police have sought cancellation of a legal provision that bars them from justifying torture and inhuman treatment of anyone in custody even in circumstances like war and political unrest.

SPORTS have such a universal appeal and magnetism that the Berlin Olympics staged by Hitler in 1936 turned out to be a picture-perfect event.

OCTOBER 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday. The stock market crashes in the US.

BANGLADESH cricket team's victory against the much-fancied English side in the ICC Cricket World Cup has given the nation an opportunity to unite behind the national team. It is indeed a rare occasion, the kind that is capable of uniting the country behind a single event.

WE would like to add our voice to that of the eminent citizens in their plea made to the prime minister calling for proper investigation to find out the real culprits in the gruesome killing of a young boy in Narayanganj.

THE speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib given at the Race Course (now Suhrawardy Uddyan) forty-four years ago on March 7...

THERE is no event bigger than the Liberation War in the history of the Bangali nation.

SPEAKING at London's Science Museum recently, physicist Stephen Hawking said: “The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.