Eresh Omar Jamal

People really are struggling beyond any comprehension to get by—at least for you and me.

Advocate Sultana Kamal speaks with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about Bangladesh’s 12th parliamentary election and its ramifications for the country’s political and governance landscapes.

“What’s the point of this election?” Its winner has already been predetermined.

The mismatch highlighted by the IMF could indicate that capital flight in FY23 has increased even more.

With the national election still two weeks away, many national and international observers have already termed it as a farce or “staged election.”

The case against him and WikiLeaks is much more important for what it might entail for press freedom itself.

With scientific progress and the advent of advanced technology, the methods of population control, particularly through the use of information control, emotional manipulation, and mass surveillance have become predominant.

In April this year, South Africa’s BRICS ambassador Anil Sooklal told Bloomberg that a long list of nations were now looking to join the bloc.

The ruling party would be well-advised to change its ways and try to make the people its main source of strength through good governance, by returning power to the people and making amends for its past mistakes.

With all the problems Bangladesh has right now, Moody’s downgrading of its sovereign rating is one of the worst things that could have happened.

Addressing many of our economic problems is proving to be difficult not mainly for economic reasons, but because of political ones.

Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, executive chairman of the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), discusses the upcoming national budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star.

Through the April 24 incident, we came very close to some major accidents.

In an interview with The Daily Star, Iqbal Bahar Zahid talks about how his foundation seeks to help Bangladeshis become entrepreneurs, and improve their lives and the society.

Panic spread among residents of Dhaka on Monday night as people from different parts of the city complained of gas leaks.

One must ask: how does the government expect to implement proper corrective measures without bringing in full transparency?

A sense of injustice being perpetrated against them by state actors is increasingly building up among the common people.

Moody’s, one of the big three global rating agencies, downgraded its outlook for Bangladesh’s banking sector from “stable” to “negative.”

Hostility between the two sectarian rivals has dominated Middle Eastern politics in recent years, spreading into Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen.

Mushtaq might have been the worst victim of the DSA, but he was not the only one.