New Age

Not learning the lesson that should’ve been learnt earlier

| Updated at 12:00am on February 25, 2019

THE furore after the Nimtali fire of June 3, 2010 that mounted pressure, at least for some time, on the government to relocate chemical shops, ...
Brexit: causes and consequences

M Ashiq | Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2019

APART from Trumpism — principles, policies and practices supported by the US president Donald Trump, these days departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union called Brexit is dominating the coverage of global news and electronic media....
A journalist and politician first to speak up

Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2019

PREM Shankar Jha’s column in The Wire caused my mind to wander in an unlikely direction: Kanpur riots soon after the demolition of Babari Masjid. Jha’s piece headlined ‘In Pulwama, Narendra Modi has found the trigger he needed before 2019 elections’ must be read keeping in mind that he was the first to push the barricades....
A call to halt illegal invasion of Venezuela

Kevin Tillman | Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2019

IT SEEMS like every time I pick up a newspaper or go online, our country is starting another war....
Dignity of Bangla must be upheld

| Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2019

THE use of Bangla in various sectors seems to be on the wane as the young generation appears to be distancing itself from the language....
Govt must treat Rohingya refugees keeping to laws

| Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2019

THE way a Rohingya young man, reported to have been involved in the robbery of an Ansar Battalion camp near the Nayapara refugee camp and the murder of the camp’s commander on May 13, 2016, came to be killed in a ‘gunfight’ with the Rapid Action Battalion at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Friday morning raises concern....
My brush with street journalism

Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2019

OH! THE gorgeous 1960s! I have relished the memories of those sweet and fascinating years....
The war on Venezuela is built on lies

John Pilger | Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2019

TRAVELLING with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat....
11,800 civilians killed in Syria, Iraq

Brett Wilkins | Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2019

NEARLY 12,000 civilians have been killed by US-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria since 2014, according to a statement from the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights....
A collective failure that explodes into Chawk Bazar fire

Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2019

AS ALL was being readied for the observance of Shaheed Dibas, which marks February 21, 1952, the language movement that set out people’s journey towards their independence in 1971, in a business district of Old Town called Chawk Bazar in Dhaka, a building caught fire....