Shah Husain Imam

He wouldn't yield to pressures from sponsors, exerted twice before a heavyweight championship encounter to ostensibly distance himself from Islam. His association with Malcom X and hiring a Muslim woman cook for his camp miffed some potential sponsors threatening not to back Ali.

Belying speculations at the anti Trinamool camp for a 'vote for change' like the West Bengalees accounted for in 2011, Mamata has swept to a second term with a powerful mandate.

The debutant has proved to the world that much that he is a wily bowler, his stand-out simplicity has endeared him to people in IPL hosts India and elsewhere in the cricketing world.

There is a serious point to be made about the opposition bashing with all its ramifications. But when the BNP had been in power, particularly in its last term, it acted heavy-handedly against the then opposition Awami League.

In an overarching sense, the matter by its very nature requires consultation with stakeholders, media representatives and experts before a set of best practice methods can be evolved in employing the media as a partner of democracy and protector of public weal.

We have an uncanny genius to state the obvious and the commonplace. The latest example of this trait is typified by a facile labeling of

In one of the human chains seeking justice to Tonu after a full month of simulated mystery surrounding her case, a placard read jarringly but insightfully “When alive we are a 'commodity' and when raped and murdered we become sisters”.

DR. Mazharul Haque, provost of Salimullah Muslim Hall during my time at the Dhaka University, around the mid sixties, shared a personal anecdote with me.

Given the high passion aroused by India-Pakistan matches, one might have expected a slice of that rivalry to radiate through some kind of a cheer for Bangladesh struggling through an uphill chase of a big Pakistani total. Again that was not to be!

Usually, the first hudred days of parliamentary election

We are doing a postmortem on the sensational cyber crime that has depleted us of Tk 800 crore in foreign exchange from the reserve

The early success should act as tonic for the Bangladesh team which they need, especially in the nippy weather of Dharmashala to face Ireland, a good team, and Oman which has defeated the former in a two-run stunner.

Bangladesh's jinx over the highly popular T-20 format cricket has disappeared in a flash as if in a comic strip to put it picturesquely.

The backdrop was dramatic, full of expectancy for the growing numbers of cricket-lovers in the country – almost to a last man...

The beehive mentality of surpassing each other in ingratiating themselves with the higher ups, if not checked, may hold the system to ransom.

The up-scaling of the passport is indicative of the country's potentiality as a vibrant investment destination. We must build up on the image, and not allow it to be chipped away by any indiscretion whatsoever...

When I joined The Daily Star in mid-December 1993, a few months after the sudden and sad demise of the Founding Editor S. M. Ali, I was struck by the organisation's attention to detail and the starry-eyed philosophy behind it.

If the last two centuries were of inconclusive and asymmetrical globalisation, the present one deserves to be called the century of migration.

Whatever may be his infamy, flippancy and punching above his weight in the eye of his critics, H. M. Ershad hardly seems ready for his swan song.

While maxi-oil wars are playing out in the Middle East and North Africa we have our mini version of an oil battle to be won at home.