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Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury’s contribution to politics
by Md Maksudar Rahman Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on November 04, 2020
AKHTARUZZAMAN Chowdhury Babu is not with us today. Yet he is ever awake within us. Today, we remember with reverence his memory and meaningful life...
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America in the mid-seventies and 2020
by Tom Engelhardt | Updated at 12:00am on November 04, 2020
IT WAS summer almost half a century ago when I got into that Volkswagen van and began my trip across country with Peter, a photographer...
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Cheering a lost revolution
by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on November 04, 2020
SALEEM Asmi’s death last week was always going to be untimely and too soon for journalists and cultural dilettantes allowed into his charmed circle. They...
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Class consciousness in the age of COVID-19
by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on November 04, 2020
PRIOR to the appearance of COVID-19-related restrictions and lockdowns, neoliberal capitalism had turned to various mechanisms in the face of economic stagnation and massive inequalities:...
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Why Biden could still lose the election
M Ashiq | Updated at 12:00am on November 03, 2020
ONCE again, America is in the election year and November 3 is the judgement day for the incumbent president Donald Trump, the 45th president of...
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Need for a bold plan for journalists post election
| Updated at 12:00am on November 03, 2020
REVITALISING our democracy for what hopefully will be a post-Trump era requires rebuilding core institutions, including news and information systems. Local journalism, which binds communities...
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Protecting against 2nd COVID-19 wave
mair Javed | Updated at 12:00am on November 03, 2020
AS COVID-19 cases rise across the country, it seems to be a matter of time before strict public health measures designed to stem the virus’s...
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Significance of health and safety training
Hasnat M Alamgir | Updated at 12:00am on November 03, 2020
A REPORT of the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies showed that 699 workers died at work in 2016 while the Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and...
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Europe must open up to new ideas
| Updated at 12:00am on November 02, 2020
RELIGION is one of the toughest challenges facing modern secular societies in their search for identity, equality and cohesion. It is increasingly a stronger source...
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Democrats potentially losing Pennsylvania battle
Monty Ahmed Feras | Updated at 12:00am on November 02, 2020
BOTH Democrats and Republicans have worked hard in the past 12 months to gather their strength and garner support for their candidates — former vice-president...