Nizamuddin Ahmed

Imagine there is a bridge collapse. Starting from the concerned minister's naki via the chief engineer's naki through six administrative levels and two technical levels, each crossing out because of some masterly nakis; the blame ultimately falls on an MLSS, who did not report to duty on the fateful day.

According to one Bengali folklore, albeit in reference to a woman, it is said that she who can cook can also tie up her hair. Perhaps

This country has on and off been plagued by wrong decisions of several ministers, bureaucrats and public servants, shamed by unruly behaviour of...

We washed out Pakistan 3-0 in an ODI series last April and we convincingly defeated India 2-1 last week,; situations unthinkable for me to pen or utter two decades ago. Yes, indeed, we have come a long way.

Thousands of long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar are believed to be stuck at sea on people-smuggler boats, unable to land because of a crackdown on illegal trafficking networks in Thailand and Malaysia, officials and refugee activists say.

Switzerland is a country known for its tranquility, and its citizens as one of the most law-abiding in the world. How a person from such

Unauthorised construction and rampant violation of code, yes, but have we tried to find other Rana Plazas in the country?

The mother lies in the mortuary. Her son is trying desperately to get an airline ticket from the States to get home for her janaza.

If the perpetrators of the law and order situation are from the camp we do not see eye to eye (not because all politicians wear dark glasses), then we heave a sigh of relief because we will be above blame, realising little that either way our nation is one more step closer to going to the dogs.

That our Sangsad has become dull and drab since the ascension to Bangabhaban of the previous Speaker would be discourteous to the existing fellows that constitute our house of parliament, but it is a fitting compliment to our president Abdul Hamid.

THE Nepal earthquake of April 25, its worst in four decades, has again given free fodder to even freer speculations from the layman to the experts...

JUST as we do not like to have shik kabab with Chinese noodles (hopefully I am right), or expect someone to wear a red tie over his ...

ONE cannot thank India for having a hand in drying our rivers across which today ply bullock carts, not by any act of magic but by

A hobu-diplomat has been caught (The Daily Star April 8; Shoplifting in The Hague: Bangladeshi diplomat to face music) far away in the Netherlands, having criminally pocketed a mobile handset.

DATELINE New Delhi, 27 February 2015: BCCI's side-lined president N. Srinivasan (World Cup's booed trophy handler) apologised unconditionally to the Supreme Court for presiding over the February 8 BCCI Working Committee meeting in breach of the January 2015 Court order.

NO one was spitting on the street, right, left and centre. Sometimes the wind can take it backwards, I have discovered to my obvious displeasure.

I had a dream, which is not unusual given the time that we get to sleep during the traffic jam, which is the hallmark of the ongoing hartal imposed by the opposition out of parliament.

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.

OUR (yours, mine, his and hers) general attitude towards any law is that firstly, it is meant for someone else (perhaps), and secondly, it does not really harm anyone...