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Into the intersection of identity & violence
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Ctg-8 By-polls / Awami League nominates Noman Al Mahmud
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Historical
Democracy is a lot like pancake
AMERICAN basketball coach Pat Riley mapped out the terrain in the following words. He said it starts with a nobody, who becomes an upstart, who becomes a contender.
12 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Is AAP going Janata way?
WHEN movements convert themselves into political parties they lose their original shape.
12 March 2015, 18:00 PM
This is not cricket
THE country was rather pleasantly surprised by the BNP, whose so-called political programme has crossed the sixty day mark a week ago, announcing temporary relaxing of hartal ...
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Alienation breeds intolerance -- 'You need to invest in Islamic scholarship.'
All countries have some form of extremism, even developed Western countries—on both the left and the right wings.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
The cry of Joy Bangla
EXACTLY 214 years after Bangla's sun of independence set in the mango grove of Polashi in Behrampur on June 23, 1757, the resting sun rose once more to glory in an unknown village in Meherpur, Kushtia through the announcement of independence of then East Pakistan by the Awami League.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Let cricket unite the nation
BANGLADESH has made history in cricket. For the first time they qualified to play in the quarterfinals of the ICC World Cup by defeating England at Adelaide.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Why aren't you talking?
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.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
5 injured in Dhaka crude bomb blasts
At least five people, including two policemen, were injured in separate crude bomb blasts in Dhaka.
11 March 2015, 15:40 PM
BNP spokesman Salahuddin detained, claims wife
BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed has been picked up allegedly by law enforcers, claims his wife Hasina Ahmed.
11 March 2015, 14:52 PM
Khaleda to be held once court order reaches police: PM
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be arrested and her Gulshan office searched once court orders reach police, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament
11 March 2015, 13:39 PM
Laxmipur Jubo Dal man succumbs to bullet injuries
A Jubo Dal activist, who sustained bullet injuries during a ‘gunfight’ with police at Char Lawrence Berarganj on Laxmipur-Ramgati road in Kamalnagar upazila on March 2, dies at a hospital in Dhaka.
11 March 2015, 11:30 AM
Manna stable, says medical board
The health condition of Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna is stable, says head of the medical board formed to examine him.
10 March 2015, 19:30 PM
International implications of an independent “Bangla Desh”
FROM news reports now available it would appear that the use of massive military fire power has broken the Awami League and its supporters in most urban centers.
10 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Australia
The choice: facing trial for drug crimes resulting in a penalty of death or facing indefinite detention for no crime based on a secretive bureaucratic process… Which is crueller?
10 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Torching land offices
WE cannot but deplore in the strongest terms the senseless acts of vandalism that have plagued the country in the last two months, the latest victim of which, it seems, has become the land record offices across a big swathe of the country.
10 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Police did not act, says Avijit’s wife
Rafida Ahmed Bonya, wife of murdered blogger-writer Avijit Roy, says she did not get proper cooperation from law enforcers when they came under attack on February 26.
10 March 2015, 14:18 PM
'Building owners to install CC cameras'
In the wake of some recent petrol bomb charges reportedly from the tops of city buildings, the government has decided to ask the owners of high-rise buildings in the capital to install close-circuit (CC) cameras.
10 March 2015, 12:11 PM
3 JCD men held at Shahbagh
Police today picked up three leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, near Aziz Super Market at Shahbagh in Dhaka.
10 March 2015, 11:58 AM
EC to sit for DCC polls date
The Election Commission will hold a meeting with the officials of education ministry and law enforcement agencies on Thursday to discuss the date for Dhaka City Corporation polls.
10 March 2015, 11:32 AM
Get DNA test done by FBI, court tells Avijit murder investigators
A Dhaka court today ordered the Detective Branch (DB) of police to get a DNA test of the Avijit Roy murder evidence done by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
10 March 2015, 11:19 AM