SOMETIME ago, a leader in this newspaper wondered what had happened to our sense of decency. The thought-provoking article struck a chord in many hearts, including mine.

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.

THERE is something manifestly unusual in the media report that says that the police have sought cancellation of a legal provision that bars them from justifying torture and inhuman treatment of anyone in custody even in circumstances like war and political unrest.

LAST July, when United States federal judge Thomas Griesa ruled that Argentina had to repay in full the so-called vulture funds that had bought its sovereign debt at rock-bottom prices, the country was forced into default, or “Griesafault.”

Here we publish Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sydney H. Schanberg's famous article titled "Pakistan Divided".

SPORTS have such a universal appeal and magnetism that the Berlin Olympics staged by Hitler in 1936 turned out to be a picture-perfect event.

OCTOBER 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday. The stock market crashes in the US.

THE BNP- led 20 party alliance's announcement of a 12 hour 'break' in hartal to allow for people to celebrate the Bangladesh Cricket team's victory over England for the World Cup quarterfinals is a contrived attempt to gain public sympathy.

WE would like to add our voice to that of the eminent citizens in their plea made to the prime minister calling for proper investigation to find out the real culprits in the gruesome killing of a young boy in Narayanganj.

THE speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib given at the Race Course (now Suhrawardy Uddyan) forty-four years ago on March 7...

THERE is no event bigger than the Liberation War in the history of the Bangali nation.

SPEAKING at London's Science Museum recently, physicist Stephen Hawking said: “The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

The government has plans to form a specialised unit of law enforcers to combat subversive activities during the ongoing blockade and hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

The Chittagong unit of Awami League-led 14-party alliance today proposed that ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury be picked as the mayoral candidate of the alliance in the upcoming Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls.

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says, a democracy can only achieve its full potential with ample and safe space for free expression, opposition voices, and political dialogue.

A small trader, who was burnt in a petrol bomb attack, allegedly by hartal supporters in February, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Denouncing the efforts of a section of people to keep women captive in houses, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges all to come forward to create social awareness to stop anti-women propaganda.

A female doctor of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) was injured when at least three crude bombs went off near Central Shaheed Minar

Terming Khaleda Zia as the leader of the militants, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the BNP chief would have to face punishment for getting people killing in petrol bombs attacks.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called for a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning to press home their demands that include general elections under a nonparty administration.