• Pranab Mukherjee’s visit: the same empty rhetoric
  • An ill-conceived plan
  • Successful Chicago summit, not Afghan peace
  • Violating foreshore land
  • DBBL scholarships: a benevolent gesture
  • National unity cannot be imposed by force
  • Empty hands, empty minds, empty eyes
  • Celebrating 151st birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore
  • Tagore and his plays
  • Socialist Hollande new French president
  • Hillary presses India to cut Iran oil imports
  • CPD urges govt to cut bank borrowing
  • $732m ACU payment to hit forex reserve below $10b
  • Of friends and foes
  • Matin upstages Siddik on day one
  • Rajuk razes Wonderland
  • Mishuk owners allowed to launch CNG auto-rickshaw
  • ACC moves to detect graft in customs dept of NBR
  • Govt to launch survey to identify people with disabilities
  • HC gives split orders, no harassment in 7 days
  • Cabinet okays draft labour policy
  • Higher pass rate, more GPA 5
  • AL, BNP hail Hillary’s suggestions
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National unity cannot be imposed by force

THE dominance of national security considerations in the actions of the government have been highlighted again in the hundreds of detentions that have taken place in recent days in the east, especially in the... Full story

Empty hands, empty minds, empty eyes

IT WAS just appalling to see people passing days without any plan for tomorrow. Usually, when a person goes to sleep at night, s/he knows what s/he will do or might do or needs to do after getting up the next... Full story

US-Afghan pact won’t end war – or night raids

Afghan Special Forces personnel stand beside the wreckage of a vehicle after a suicide bomb attack in Kabul on May 2…
THE optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s ‘Enduring Strategic Partnership’ agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to US war. But the... Full story


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