National,Front Page

‘Boycott India’: BNP sticks to its gun

The scene was quite cinematic. Although the last Thursday was a usual hot day of the Chaitra, the Bengali calendar’s last month known for scorching heat, BNP’s joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was wearing a large shawl, which normally people wrap on the body during the chilly wi...

National,Front Page

Nobel Prize doesn’t ensure indemnity

Nobel Prize cannot absolve a man from legal punishment if he commits an offence. There are instances galore in which even the Nobel laureates have been brought to book for crime they committed.It’s no secret that the Nobel Prize has a strong Western political influence. The Nobel Prize committ...

National,Front Page

Conspirators still hyperactive

Conspiracy against Bangladesh is nothing new. The anti-liberation forces, who were defeated in the Liberation War, are still active and engaged in diabolical conspiracies against any development work in Bangladesh. In fact, they cannot accept anything good for the welfare and development of the coun...

National,Front Page

Making a Razakar-free administration an urgency

Cleansing the ‘Razakars’ from inside the administration now seems more important than preparing the list of Razakars, the collaborators of Pakistani occupation force during the War of Liberation in 1971.It is a great initiative, though it is late, to prepare the list of razakars, the mos...

National,Front Page

How a human turns evil

No human is born as a sinner or a criminal. Every human takes birth as an innocent baby. But various reasons such as ill-education, evil company, frustration, family crisis etc. turn many of the innocent human children into dangerous criminals when they grow up. Bangladeshi-Canadian Tamim Ahmed Chow...

Opinion

Cultural practice can protect Bangladesh from evil forces

(Continuation from yesterday) The second term of Khaleda Zia government started its dreadful journey amidst unprecedented brutality - rape, arson attack, looting, rava­ging on minorities, especially on Hidu community across the country. Immediate after winning the 2001 general election they...

Opinion

Cultural practice can protect Bangladesh from evil forces

One who lis­tens to Lalon song, Nazrul song, reads Rabin­dranath and listens to Tagore song, can­not be an extre­mist or militant. The observation was made by Chief of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Monirul Islam at a discussion...

Opinion

Development sans protection of arable land improbable

Development and urbanization go arm in arm. As Bangladesh is now speeding on the highway of development; urbanization is also spreading across the country accordingly. However, development and urbanization almost always come at a cost of losing arable land.The cost of losing cultivable land can be c...