Bloodshed in Brussels and Angst of Muslims of the West
Terrorists struck again within six months of the carnage in Paris, this time in Brussels, the city that serves as headquarters of both NATO and European Union. Brussels is not unknown to terrorism; the city saw acts of terror no less than six times in the past few years, but none with the ferocity and violence
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Who guards the guardhouse?
In a surreal digital theft that befits a high octane movie thriller, we were recently informed of the daring heist at
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Donald Trump- using democracy to an autocratic future?
The avalanche of Donald Trump's presidential campaign success reached new levels this Tuesday...
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Nepal's plight: Land locked or India-locked?
After months of a chill in Indo-Nepal relationship, there is new sign of things warming up and India's loosening of the vise on Nepal. The Prime Minister of Nepal signed several treaties with India in his latest visit to Delhi early February, but only after his country had agreed to amend the recently adopted Nepalese Constitution that apparently had caused the Indian resentment, and put Nepal in the wrong end of the stick.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Law enforcement and accountability
In the last one year, the news that mostly occupied headlines in the US concerned police excesses.
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM
A runaway bureaucracy
In 1972, shortly after liberation, I used to work in the Prime Minister's secretariat in a small cubbyhole of a room that was hardly big enough for one desk and two chairs.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
From a winter of discontent to a spring of hope
A year ago from today not even a savvy soothsayer would have dared to predict the change in our political climate that we are witnessing now.
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Of turmoil and complacency
THE year 2015 began with a perilous journey of confrontation between the main opposition and the government. On the anniversary of the 2014...
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM
When enough is enough
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
8 September 2015, 18:00 PM
The lure of extremism
Muslim Bangladeshis living in the UK recently became a focus of interest to all Bangladeshis living home and abroad when the news of some young Muslims of Bangladeshi origin joining the so-called Islamic State in Syria/Iraq struck the front page.
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Playing Solitaire In A Parliamentary Democracy
Democracy in a one-party state may sound like an oxymoron, but such a thing does exist in our known world. In a single-party state
25 July 2015, 18:00 PM
A crowded bandwagon of hopefuls
In another fifteen months, the world's eyes will be riveted on the United States to see who the next US President will be.
14 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The season of manmade disasters
That time is upon us again. Not just to witness people hitting markets for shopping, but also to see them leaving in droves for homes to see their dear ones.
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Managing fan behaviour and exuberance
The series victory in cricket against India has taken our people on a joy ride that the country does not witness very often.
29 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Modi is no Gandhi
The agony and ecstasy over Prime Minister Modi's visit to Bangladesh is now gone. Dust is settling over the commotion and hype
13 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Questions never answered
Recalling a nightmare is never a pleasant experience, yet every year this time my mind is thrown back to the eerie morning of May 30,
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Boatloads of human misery
For full two weeks or thereabouts in April the media in the west, particularly the US, were ablaze with news of hundreds of migrants
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The blurring of distinction between law enforcement and law breaking
This is not common in countries where the law enforcement machinery is handicapped by a serious gap in training and education in professionalism, human rights, and behaviour.
15 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Witnessing another ELECTION CHARADE
STUFFING of ballot boxes whether in national or local elections is nothing new in Bangladesh.
29 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Losing a battle to win a war?
The rather undramatic end to the three plus months of blockade punctuated by strikes has elicited a sigh of relief from hartal stricken people of Bangladesh.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The stalled war against Islamic militants
THE war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is about to observe its first anniversary.
31 March 2015, 18:00 PM
March 7: An eye witness account
THE speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib given at the Race Course (now Suhrawardy Uddyan) forty-four years ago on March 7...
8 March 2015, 18:00 PM
A murder most foul
It seems there is no end to sensational news from Bangladesh. Smack on the face of the dramatic revelation of the phone conversations of a civil society stalwart that shook the society, came the horrific news of a most brutal killing of an activist writer in public view. His offense was seemingly his writings that advocated tolerance, freedom from bigotry of all kinds, love and respect for all humans, and above all a just society.
1 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Hype over Mamata Banerjee visit
Mamata Banerjee came, saw, but did not quite conquer the Bangladeshi heart. But then, the last may not have been her plan.
24 February 2015, 18:00 PM
Pondering the imponderable
A few days ago, in a news interview in Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) radio here in the US, a journalist covering events in Afghanistan provided a grim view of the prospects of democracy in that country.
18 February 2015, 18:00 PM