The USA has been in turmoil in recent months with the Black Lives Matter activism, police brutality, countrywide pro-diversity protests, show of strength by right-wing activists (mostly white supremacists), with federal forces using heavy-handed tactics to “restore law and order”, and a president seeking divine blessings with the Bible in his hands in front of a church.

The alarming rise in the incidents of sexual violence against women and children points at the failure of the existing law and justice system in prosecuting offenders of rape and ensuring justice for the victims.

Monday morning, October 5—I woke up and made the mistake of checking my Facebook newsfeed.

In an era when civil and political rights have been shrinking gradually, we have witnessed a welcome intervention by the Supreme Court.

It was the last day of 2019, when the WHO’s Country Office in China picked up a media statement—“a cluster of viral pneumonia was found in Wuhan, China”.

Over the past 45 years, the relationship between China and Bangladesh has been developing, with mutual cooperation and friendship on both sides. In the international arena, Bangladesh has, to the best of its capacity, maintained unwavering support for the “One China Policy” and China’s peaceful rise.

India’s main opposition Congress party seems to have shaken off the stupor of a disastrous performance in Lok Sabha elections in May last year and a debilitating internal feud as Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit the streets on October 2, to protest against the brutal assault and alleged rape of a Dalit teenager by upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh and her cremation in the dead of night.

In this era of digital media, radio has become akin to a novelty—considered a “cool” medium of entertainment that inspires nostalgia, but not so effective in terms of circulating information. Other media such as online portals offer information faster and in far more intriguing formats. The radio, however, still functions as a vital tool for humanitarian communication.

Every year on the 3rd of October, the Republic of Korea celebrates its National Foundation Day, Gaecheonjeol, which marks the founding of the oldest dynasty in Korean history. It is a great pleasure to celebrate this important day and honor the legacy of our forefathers with the people of Bangladesh and Korean expatriates living in Bangladesh. The Korean Embassy used to host an annual reception to celebrate this meaningful day, inviting friends and partners in Bangladesh as well as the diplomatic community. Unfortunately, due to the unprecedented pandemic, we celebrated it virtually this year on a special website (www.bd-korea.com), which opened at 10:00 am on the 3rd of October. I invite you all to visit the site, join our celebration and enjoy the various interesting content.

If the recently concluded presidential debate is of any indication, the consequences of electing president Trump for a second term is a foregone conclusion—an irreparable damage to democracy.

On the first day of this month, a class 4 student of a madrasa in Teknaf was forced into a classroom by one of her teachers and raped. The child managed to go home to her mother, but fainted from blood loss right after, and is still receiving treatment at hospital. The accused teacher was arrested on the same night.

As activists, we have filed RTI request to almost all kinds of offices, from union parishad, the lowest level of administration, to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the highest level of administration. Here are some examples of how the various government offices responded to these applications.

In the midst of ungodly incidents of street harassment, countless potholed roads, ridiculous standards of drainage systems, a stunning lack of proper garbage maintenance and hundreds of other issues that Dhaka residents have to deal with every single day, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has planned to ameliorate the plight of the city-dwellers by rounding up around 30,000 stray dogs and dumping them in isolated areas outside the capital.

It is, in the end, for the American people to decide who should occupy the coveted Oval Office on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation’s capital for the next four years.

Every year on the 3rd of October, the Republic of Korea celebrates its National Foundation Day, Gaecheonjeol, which marks the founding of the oldest dynasty in Korean history.

Lord Zac Goldsmith

It took only a few weeks for the authorities in Bangladesh to enact the third episode of a series that could be aptly titled as “Hatching conspiracy, tarnishing image”.

Military and security expert Dr M Sakhawat Hossain (SIPG, NSU) tells The Daily Star

Not many people today may be aware of the contributions made by Lt Col (retd) Abu Osman Chowdhury, who died on September 5, 2020, in our War of Liberation.

US President Donald Trump could give Caligula a run for his money. The deranged, violent Roman emperor had once made his donkey a consul, but Trump is no slouch when it comes to outrageous behaviour.