• Women’s issues transported into artworks
  • Meena Borua to present her anthology
  • Children painting competition held
  • ISI money to BNP leader
  • A pointer to incumbents’ apathy to child rights
  • Death on the river Meghna
  • Confrontational politics, desperate citizens and the urgency of now
  • Will Akhilesh emerge from his father’s shadow?
  • CU reopens after long holidays
  • Printers on hunger strike
  • Only 56pc loan disbursed in first 8 months
  • CITF cut short to vacate venue for AL ‘grand’ rally
  • Blasts hit Syria ahead of UN missions
  • 55 dead in gunfights, air strikes in Pakistan
  • BERC holds public hearing on power price hike today
  • HC asks govt to report on its steps to stop their harassment
  • Tarique, Babar, 28 others indicted
  • Heated exchanges as BNP returns to JS
  • Univ’s vision in question as founder criticised
  • Tk 5,500cr JV investment on hold
  • Law hails ‘Team Bangladesh’
  • Double ton crossed in Kohli’s mind for once
  • Watson hails game-changer Doherty
  • Pep surrenders despite Messi’s 150th strike
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Confrontational politics, desperate citizens and the urgency of now

Ruling party men beat up an opposition activist in the capital Dhaka on March 12. — New Age photo
AS THIS article is being written, Dhaka is experiencing the gradual progress of the opposition’s March 12 grand rally along with the virtual lockdown of the capital Dhaka. Without a doubt, the political scene is getting extremely volatile... Full story

Will Akhilesh emerge from his father’s shadow?

Akhilesh Yadav
IS THERE a whiff of fresh air about Samajwadi Party’s 38-year-old Akhilesh Yadav being sworn in as the chief minister in Lucknow? I was in a cheerful frame of mind about the event until the pundits waylaid me. Full story

Rediscovering poverty

IT’S been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, ‘discovered; poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington’s engaging book The Other America. If this discovery now seems a little overstated, like... Full story


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